emacs server on windows

[Doug Lewan]

I use emacs 24.3.1 under CYGWIN on Windows 7.

When emacsclient is invoked with a Windows path name, the name is converted to CYGWIN form and presented. However, there is also a buffer for a sort of hybrid path and that buffer has an associated file.

For example: If I want c:\app\log, then emacsclient recommends /home/dougl/c:/app/log. Emacs, on the other hand, has a buffer with the associated file: /home/dougl/c:\app\log.

When I type C-c# to finish the server session, the buffer I had been editing is killed, but the other buffer remains. That prevents me from visiting that file again via emacsclient.

The symptom can be seen in the *Messages* directory.

external: emacsclient c:\cygwin\home\dougl\log
*Messages*: When done with a buffer, type C-x #
[edit, save, end the server session]
external: emacsclient c:\cygwin\home\dougl\log (again)
*Messages*: File no longer exists: /home/dougl/log/c:\cygwin\home\dougl\log, write buffer to file? (y or n)

I've taken a quick walk through server.el and didn't find any obvious point to start fixing. I will look at the client code when I get a chance.

Should I consider this a bug? (I didn't see it in a quick search of the bugs news group, but it is pretty big.)

Is there a known work-around?

Thanks.


,Douglas
Douglas Lewan
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[Doug Lewan]

Upon some more research and better reading, this looks more like a CYGWIN issue. At least it looks like that's the origin. Still, there is a right thing that C-c# should be doing.

,Douglas
Douglas Lewan
Shubert Ticketing
(201) 489-8600 ext 224

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. - George Orwell