RE: [h-e-w] cygwin setup guide

[Dalton, Barnaby]

It would be nice if the emacs FAQ for windows said the same thing.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq7.html#shell-bash
or maybe it should just link to the cygwin FAQ so that the information
doesn't have to be maintained in two places.

Barney


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 22 May 2002 7:07 PM
> To: 'Jeff Rancier'; Emacs Help (Windows)
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] cygwin setup guide
> 
> 
> From the Cygwin FAQ (www.cygwin.com):
> 
> ;; This assumes that Cygwin is installed in C:\cygwin (the
>       ;; default) and that C:\cygwin\bin is not already in your
>       ;; Windows Path (it generally should not be).
>       ;;
>       (setq exec-path (cons "C:/cygwin/bin" exec-path))
>       (setenv "PATH" (concat "C:\\cygwin\\bin;" (getenv "PATH")))
>       ;;
>       ;; NT-emacs assumes a Windows command shell, which you change
>       ;; here.
>       ;;
>       (setq process-coding-system-alist '(("bash" . undecided-unix)))
>       (setq shell-file-name "bash")
>       (setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name) 
>       (setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name) 
>       ;;
>       ;; This removes unsightly ^M characters that would otherwise
>       ;; appear in the output of java applications.
>       ;;
>       (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
>                 'comint-strip-ctrl-m)
> 
> 
> In actual fact, for emacs 21.x you don't need the line (setq
> process-coding-system-alist '(("bash" . undecided-unix))) anymore.
> 
> Jonathan.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Rancier [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: May 22, 2002 12:48 PM
> > To: Emacs Help (Windows)
> > Subject: [h-e-w] cygwin setup guide
> > 
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a link to a guide showing me how to 
> > minimally setup cygwin
> > in NTEmacs, using XP Pro & GNU Emacs 21.2.1 
> (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of
> > 2002-03-19 on buffy?  Specifically for the JDEE.
> > 
> > The only thing I've set is shell-file-name to bash.exe.   Do 
> > I need to set
> > Windows environmental variables?  Registry changes?
> > 
> > TIA.
> > Jeff
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 


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