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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