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Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:28:05 +0300 |
> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:59:32 +0200
>
> Under windows-nt I'm using w32-shell-execute to start a Windows10
> program. This isn't working for Emacs-26.3 in a cygwin terminal because
> w32-shell-execute is not bound.
>
> Do you know a cygwin alternative for w32-shell-execute? I guess
> start-process will do but I don't need a subprocess for this independent
> application.
Can't you use the Cygwin/w32 build of Emacs, i.e. a Cygwin build which
uses MS-Windows native GUI widgets? That build does support
w32-shell-execute function.