Hi Mathias,

Mathias Kegelmann <mathias.kegelm...@gmail.com> writes:

> thanks for pointing out that the version is missing. I am running:
>
> ELISP> (emacs-version)
> "GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)\n of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1"
>
> The issue with shell-quote is as follows:
>
> ELISP> (shell-quote-argument "c:/org/test")
> "c\\:/org/test"

This is also the output for current Emacs (24.1.50.1).

> The problem is the backslash before the colon as quoting colons
> doesn't seem to be legal in Cygwin.

Mh.. I'm don't really know anything about Cygwin, so perhaps it's safer
to ask this on the emacs-devel@ mailing list.  IIUC, the question is
whether Cygwin requires something else than 'shell-quote-argument in
such cases.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

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