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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.



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