Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Jakub Jankiewicz <jcubic@onet.pl> writes:

>> 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.
>
> Why don't use you WSL, it's Linux on Windows 10, that is fully compatible
> with Windows binaries, so you can use standard way to start a process in

Good idea :-)

Installed it and it seems to be a good alternative to (other?) VMs.  But
to be fully functional I need to run graphical programs on it as well.
For example an Emacs with docview.

Do you know if this is possible?

Thanks
        Dieter
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H. Dieter Wilhelm
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