Re: cygpath from emacs

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

On 05/05/2010 19:24, Gary wrote:
> I often find myself running a piece of software from within emacs that
> expects, and spits out, Windows-style paths ("C:\..."). Handling sending
> it Windows paths based on the Cygwin ones is fine, I just use a
> script.
> 
> Of course, the tool returning Windows paths is a PITA, because it means
> I can't do M-x next-error :( Is there a solution, a way to "capture
> them" and transform them before they end up in the emacs buffer, maybe?
> I feel I should be able to work this out myself, but my brain refuses to
> bend around it :(

  So you have a script that transforms the paths on the command-line and
launches the app... why doesn't the script /also/ capture the output and
transform it back?

    cheers,
      DaveK

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