Re: [h-e-w] Emacs under windows xp. Cmdproxy.exe problem

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

From: "Nickolay Tchervenski" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 2:39 AM
Subject: [h-e-w] Emacs under windows xp. Cmdproxy.exe problem


> Hi,
>
> I am running emacs on windows xp : C:\fsf\emacs-20.7\bin\runemacs.exe
> This came with fsf cd. I had a problem running dvips, which actually
> always crashed,
> So I installed miketex, for which dvips and everything else works just
> great.
>
> Now the problem comes, when I want to run commands from emacs:
>
> (setq latex-run-command "mylatex.bat")
> (setq tex-dvi-print-command "myprint.bat")
>
> And etc, => the problem is that the second time the command does not
> execute
> And cmdproxy.exe stays hanging out running..
>
> Can you suggest anything for that cmdproxy.exe
> Shall I try something like tcsch, sh, something from cygwin or somewhere
> else?


I suggest you experiment with using the Windows start command, e.g. try

(setq latex-run-command "start mylatex.bat")

I find this is necessary in some cases and not others; for example, I have

tex-dvi-view-command's value is "start yap \"*\""

on my Win NT system, although nothing else related to MiKTeX seems to need
start on this machine.

For details of the start command, enter start/? at a DOS prompt.

I also *strongly* recommend that you upgrade to Emacs 21.3.

Francis