Re: Comint and windows

[Jeffrey DeLeo]

I used to use emacs regularly on Windows, along with cygwin. I no longer
do. I did use shell and other processes successfully, this is from my
.emacs on Windows. I can't say what is relevant anymore, though.

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp

  (defun my-shell-setup ()
         "For Cygwin bash under Emacs 20"
         (setq comint-scroll-show-maximum-output 'this)
         (make-variable-buffer-local 'comint-completion-addsuffix))

  (setq shell-file-name "bash")
  (setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name) 

  (setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name) 
  (setq explicit-shell-args '("--login" "-i"))
  (setq shell-command-switch "-ic")
  (setq explicit-bash-args '("--noediting"))
  (setq comint-completion-addsuffix t)
  ;(setq comint-process-echoes t) ;; reported that this is no longer needed
  (setq comint-eol-on-send t)
  (setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")

  (setq shell-mode-hook 'my-shell-setup)

  ;; Prevent issues with the Windows null device (NUL)
  ;; when using cygwin find with rgrep.
  (defadvice grep-compute-defaults (around 
grep-compute-defaults-advice-null-device)
    "Use cygwin's /dev/null as the null-device."
    (let ((null-device "/dev/null"))
        ad-do-it))
  (ad-activate 'grep-compute-defaults)
#+END_SRC