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Re: [h-e-w] Emacs Cygwin setup in Vista help
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] Emacs Cygwin setup in Vista help |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:49:47 +0200 |
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:22 PM, John A Pershing Jr
<address@hidden> wrote:
> rpd wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I guess this question has been asked before but I want to open cygwin bash
>> shell in Emacs (Vista O/S).
>>
>>
>
> I'm probably missing something fundamental -- however, I have C:\cygwin\bin
> in my (Windoze) PATH, right after the various C:\WINDOWS directories, and I
> have the line:
>
> (setq explicit-shell-file-name "C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe")
>
> in my .emacs file, and it just works. I also have a file .emacs_bash.exe
> containing the single line:
>
> . .bash_profile
>
> since the Emacs 'shell' command does not pass the --login option to the
> shell.
Yes, that it is more problematic if you want to change between different shells.