bug#20237: Emacs built on Windows cannot figure out path correctly

[Da Zhang]

Thanks for  your time!

M-: (w32-shell-name) RET returns

"C:/cygwin64/bin/bash.exe"

On 4/4/2015 2:12 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:06:02 -0400
> > From: Da Zhang <zhangda82@gmail.com>
> > CC: 20237@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > The
> > (w32-shell-dos-semantics)
> >
> > returns nil.
> OK, so what does this display:
>
>    M-: (w32-shell-name) RET
>
> > Can you please let me know how to use edebug to follow through 
> > python-shell-parse-command?
> This is no longer needed: if w32-shell-dos-semantics returns nil, then
> shell-quote-argument will quote every character not in the Posix
> character set with a backslash.  This is what you see.  The question
> is why w32-shell-dos-semantics returns nil.