Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
>> From: "David Vanderschel" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:24:52 -0500
>>
>> Is it worth trying to get the bash shell provided with MSYS to
>> run as a shell in Emacs?
>
> IMO, no. It's probably possible, given enough tinkering,
I did that tinkering, so I can build MinGW packages via MSYS under
Emacs. It wasn't hard:
(defun shell-msys ()
(interactive)
(let ((explicit-sh.exe-args '("--login" "-i")))
(shell-explicit "c:/MinGW/msys/1.0/bin/bash.exe" "Msys" ?/ nil)))
-- ~/.profile:
# Msys sh (alias for Gnu bash)
export PS1="\h$ "
# end of file
> but why would you want to? Emacs on Windows can do just fine without
> Bash; if you have features that don't work without that, please tell
> the details.
+1
> Anyway, MSYS is just a fork of Cygwin. Its main purpose is to allow
> MinGW developers run Unix configure scripts to configure GNU software
> for being built with MinGW. Once the configure script ran, MSYS's job
> is done, and you are not supposed to need it anymore. In fact, the
> MSYS developers advise to stay away of MSYS _except_ for running the
> configure scripts.
Which is the only reason I use MSYS.
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-- Stephe
