On 7/15/2010 10:03 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 7/15/2010 9:26 PM, Olwe Melwasul wrote:
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
It sounds like you're using the Emacs-X11 start menu shortcut that's
created by the X-start-menu-icons package. Don't use it. It doesn't
set up the environment properly before starting emacs. To get a useful
shortcut, you can use the script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut that comes
with the emacs package.
I should have added that you should see
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README for more information about that
script and the shortcut it creates.
Ken
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