Re: Shell SRC blocks under Windows

[Michael Powe]

On 2/4/2022 15:15, H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
> Hello
>
> I installed the software distribution MSYS2 https://www.msys2.org/.  And
> I'd like to call its various shells in org src blocks.  First I tried to
> set explicit-shell-file-name but then my LaTeX exports don't work any
> longer.
>
> Is is it possible to extend org-mode's src blocks with
> org-babel-shell-names to use either MSYS2 or MinGW shells (instead of
> cmd.exe)?  Unfortunately ob-shell.el doesn't guide me further and I
> can't find examples or the respective lisp files on how to define the
> execution functions.
>
> GNU Emacs 28.0.91 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30,
> cairo version 1.15.10) of 2022-01-14
>
> Org mode version 9.4.6 (9.4.6-13-g4be129-elpaplus @
> /home/dieter/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210920/)

I'm not aware that I did anything special to get these results, except 
add `(shell . t)` to `org-babel-load-languages`. I mean, it is entirely 
possible that I did, in some other context. I think it's just a matter 
of having bash in your path.


#+begin_src sh :results verbatim

  $SHELL --version

#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: GNU bash, version 5.1.8(1)-release (x86_64-pc-msys)
: Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
: License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
:
: This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
: There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.


Thanks.

mp

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