Translate posix paths to windows paths for cygwin

[account-login]

Hello, as #619 points out, the experience of using fd on cygwin is not great.

I propose adding the --cygwin-path flag to fd. When enabled, paths in command line will be translated to windows paths using the cygpath command.
For example, fd --cygwin-path xxx /usr /cygdrive/z will be translated to something like fd xxx C:/cygwin/usr Z:/.
Here is a proof of concept implementation: account-login@8cf8ebf

Just FYI, I have also posted the same proposal to the ripgrep project: BurntSushi/ripgrep#1905

[sharkdp]

I'm not sure I understand this completely. What would this path translation gain us? Is something not working without it? Or are you more concerned about the precise form of the output?

[sharkdp]

Slightly related: #153 (comment)

[account-login]

This issue is about the input paths in the command line, not the output.

[sharkdp]

Okay, but could you please answer this question:

What would this path translation gain us? Is something not working without it?

[sharkdp]

I'm closing this due to inactivity. Please feel free to comment in case it should be re-opened.

[cebaa]

One answer to:

What would this path translation gain us? Is something not working without it?

is consistency when using -p. For example:

$ alias fd
alias fd='fd --path-separator /'
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ touch hello
$ find /tmp/test
/tmp/test
/tmp/test/hello
$ cd /tmp
$ fd -p '.*/test/.*'
$ fd -p '.*\\test\\.*'
test/hello
$