Re: substitute-in-file-name is not distributive

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:48:21 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> Cygwin itself deals adequately with being given Windows paths ---
> it's Emacs that could handle them more elegantly.

If Cygwin can handle these file names (which is what I thought was the
case), why not change expand-file-name so that the DOS_NT parts there
are also compiled in for Cygwin?

Hmm... but then typing "C-x C-f /foo/bar TAB" will prepend a drive
letter, perhaps, which is not what you want.