On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > On 7/15/2010 3:51 PM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: >> >> Yes, I am using the emacs-X11 and yes, I started it (after starting >> the X server to get multiwindowed mode) with ">emacs&" at the cygwin >> command. Emacs-X11 comes up fine, looking good. Then I do "M-x shell" >> to get a shell environment inside of Emacs. But what comes up is not >> bash. I'm not sure what it is, but it sees no cygwin apps: It doesn't >> know what "ls" or "which diff" or any other GNU/cygwin stuff is. I >> assume it is the DOS shell. Oddly, if I start emacs-X11 inside the >> windowed mode (startx) and do emacs shell mode, it does see bash and >> the rest of the GNU/cygwin apps. > > [Please don't top-post.] > > I think the problem is that your PATH isn't set correctly inside emacs. How > are you starting the X server? If you use the start menu shortcut (with > target C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe) > you shouldn't have that problem. Notice that it uses 'bash -l' precisely so > that the environment, including PATH, is set up in the normal way. > > Ken
I started the X-server with the menu shortcut (which has the execute string you listed) and ... after ... a full minute it delivers a stand-alone xterm. I then click on the Emacs-X11, and after a long wait, it comes up. I do an M-x shell -- and get a "sh-3.2$" prompt. I try some commands, and it only seems to know a few. "cd" does get me to "/home/Olwe" which tells me it must have something to do with cygwin, but it knows no other GNU/cygwin other than perhaps "pwd". Next, I kill it and start Emacs-X11 in the xterm "emacs &". It comes up fine. I do M-x shell -- and get the identical prompt I got in xterm, namely, o...@olwe-pc $ I type commands and they work -- it sees the GNU/cygwin apps fine -- but it leaves odd characters after it returns, e.g. $ which diff /usr/bin/diff ^[]0;~^G The last string is not random, it has some method to its madness. For example $ ls dbus-4xiZFwCMPa dbus-U6vB5c6MSd dbus-hdtwMyVbXA dbus-yXQ8LOSIN3 ]0;/tmp Actually, I copied the above output and lost the ^[ and the ^G, but they show up on the emacs shell output. Next, I kill emacs-X11 stand-alone and start emacs -nw in the xterm. Same funky characters. I try other consoles -- same funky characters. Again, the windowed mode doesn't have these problems, just the issues with minimized apps disappearing beyond the bottom of Openbox. If I could just get rid of the funky xterm characters, I'd call it a day.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/