Re: [h-e-w] cygwin setup guide / Emacs from Bash Question

[Stephen Leake]

Paul Whitfield <address@hidden> writes:

> One think I find is that If I every run emacs (well actually
> gnuclientw.exe) from the bash prompt it does weird things
> to my environment. The cygwin environment screws up my
> normal emacs environment.

You've got things backwards; you're supposed to start Emacs every
morning, and never leave it. Only run bash from Emacs :).

That's what I do. I set _all_ my environment variables, and path, in
.emacs. Actually, I have several small snippets of elisp that let me
change the environment variables for different projects. Easier than
maintaining bash scripts or using the control panel.

> Does anyone have a work arround for this? Currently my only solution
> is to never run emacs from bash... which is a pain since I you
> cygwin based development tools.

Think of Emacs as your shell, and bash as a low-level subsidiary tool :).


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