From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32818 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2016 14:16:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 32772 invoked by uid 89); 29 Jan 2016 14:16:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=kbrowncornelledu, kbrown@cornell.edu, H*f:sk:CAFj5VX, H*MI:sk:HsL16ru X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:16:29 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id u0TEGR6r002035 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:16:27 -0500 Received: from [10.13.22.4] (50-192-26-105-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.192.26.105]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id u0TEGQIE026043 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:16:27 -0500 Subject: Re: Updated: emacs-24.5-3 (TEST) To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <56A40D09.1010606@cornell.edu> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <56AB7439.7060803@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:07:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00470.txt.bz2 On 1/29/2016 9:00 AM, Daniel Daboul wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution as >> test releases: >> >> * emacs-24.5-3 >> * emacs-X11-24.5-3 >> * emacs-w32-24.5-3 >> * emacs-el-24.5-3 >> [...] >> This is a rebuild of the 24.5-2 packages, patched to allow native Windows >> paths like C:\foo or C:/foo in situations where file names are expected. >> >> If you are interested in this feature, please try the test release and let >> me know whether it works the way you expect. > > Thank you for the packages. I have started to use "emacs-w32-24.5-3", > I like the new > features and I have not encountered obvious bugs. > > A shortcoming of the new version "GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of > 2016-01-23 on moufang" > compared to a mingw version "GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200) > of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN", > which I also use, is that file-name completion does not work for find-file if > a windows-style directory path is used. - Daniel Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if I can figure out how to make that work. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple