RE: [h-e-w] cygwin supbrocess startup directory

[Scott, Steven]

Jonathan, 

>From what I can tell, cygwin was in fact reading an old .bashrc in my c:/
directory (which emacs thinks is HOME) instead of the .bashrc in my cygwin
HOME directory (where HOME is set by /etc/profile).  I took out the lines
CD'ing to my home directory in c:/.bashrc and the world was fine again.  

BASH_ENV is certainly a more elegant solution than maintaining two .bashrc
files.  Thanks for pointing it out.  I also use miktex, which has worked
very well for me.  

I really appreciate the response from you, and from Robin(address@hidden).  I'd
been working on this problem for weeks!  Thanks for your help.

Cheers, 

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Underwood, Jonathan
To: 'address@hidden'; Scott, Steven; address@hidden
Sent: 2/11/2002 6:54 AM
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] cygwin supbrocess startup directory

I'm not sure that'll solve the problem, since auctex starts whatever
shell noninteractively. A non-interactive bash shell doesn;'t read
.bashrc or indeed any config files, unless you use the BASH_ENV
environment variable to tell it to (see man bash).
 
For what it's worth, i use bash all the time through emacs, however, due
to the incomplete nature of the tex/latex distribution currently
included with cygwin, i use the infinitely better and more complete
miktex distribution (www.miktex.org) which works superbly with auctex.
This, being a native windows application runs via the cmd.exe shell, but
switching between shells within an emacs session is relatively trivial
(mail me if you need some elisp for this)
 
jonathan.

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: February 10, 2002 8:53 PM
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] cygwin supbrocess startup directory


address@hidden writes: 



I use cygwin as the shell subprocess under emacs (i.e. M-x shell
launches 
cygwin).  My shell subprocesses start in my HOME directory.  I need to
make 
them start in the current directory of the buffer being edited by emacs.

The main reason is that auctex uses cygwin as a shell to run latex.
Under 
the current setup I can only use auctex to latex a file in its home 
directory. 

How do I control the directory in which the shell sub-process starts

? 

Probably your ~/.bashrc has code in it to set the working directory to
$HOME. 
Remove that when running under emacs. 

if ! test -z $EMACS; then 
# We're called from emacs 
fi 

if test -z $EMACS; then 
# We're not called from emacs 
fi 

are the appropriate tests.