[h-e-w] Re: MinGW shell under Emacs and then running Ant

[Kai Grossjohann]

Kai Grossjohann <address@hidden> writes:

> I found out that
>
>     cmd //c $(which ant.bat) -emacs compile
>
> does what I need, but it is somewhat cumbersome to type.

FWIW, in case somebody is interested, I'll share my solution.  I'm
sure it's suboptimal.  Better suggestions appreciated.

I wrote a shell function in ~/.profile, as follows:

bat () {
    cmd="$1"
    shift
    cmd //c $(which $cmd.bat) "$@"
}

Then I did (also in ~/.profile): alias ant="bat ant"

And now I can type "ant -emacs compile" into the MinGW shell.

Kai