RFE: bash dirs should support -W like pwd does

[sam-s]

Description / Steps to reproduce the issue

pwd -W outputs the current directory in windows format that native emacs builds understand.
dirs does not support that option which leads to breakage in emacs.

Expected behavior

dirs -W should print directories in windows format

Actual behavior

dirs does not support -W

Verification

• I have verified that my MSYS2 is up-to-date before submitting the report (see https://www.msys2.org/docs/updating/)

Windows Version

MINGW64_NT-10.0-19045

Are you willing to submit a PR?

no, sorry

[Eli-Zaretskii]

I support adding this feature, as well as anything else that would allow MSYS Bash to be friendlier to native Windows programs that invoke Bash.

[Biswa96]

Would it be possible to use cygpath tool like the following example?

$ cygpath -w $(dirs)
C:\MSYS2-packages\bash\bash-5.2
C:\MSYS2-packages\bash\bash-5.2\builtins

The -W option with pwd shell builtin is a customization specific to bash in msys2. In my opinion, such core modification should not exist in downstream packaging.

[stevenclarke9]

I ran cygpath -w $(dirs) from my home directory and I only got the ~ as a result.
If I replace dirs with pwd I get the following

Steven@StevenLaptopPC MINGW64 ~ 1 $ cygpath -w -l $(pwd)
C:\msys64\home\Steven
Steven@StevenLaptopPC MINGW64 ~ $

This will work for them.