On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > There's a bit in the TIPS section of the manual on how to set any > environment variable using the shell's -c option, e.g.: > > mintty sh -c "TERM=xterm-256color emacs"
Hm. Maybe I'm missing something, but - isn't this a place where using /bin/env would make more sense than dealing with all the extra processing required to launch a shell? For instance, mintty env TERM=xterm-256color emacs ~Matt -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple