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Re: [h-e-w] Problems with new bash shell under xp


From: Stephen Leake
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Problems with new bash shell under xp
Date: 19 Dec 2003 14:25:08 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3

Ken Brown <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been using Cygwin bash as my shell in emacs for a long time with
> no problems, under both windows 98 and 2000.  I just bought a new
> computer running xp, installed the current version of Cygwin, and the
> bash shell under emacs refuses to run programs in the background.
> <snip>
> 
> Any suggestions?

I don't have a solution, but I have a suggestion for a work-around.

I never need to run programs this way; perhaps there are other ways to
get emacs to run the programs, rather than explictly invoking them.

For example, I run Yap to view LaTeX docs. I use the following
Makefile snippet to do that:

%.view : %.dvi
        cygstart $<


make foo.view

Yap registers itself in the Windows registry, so cygstart knows to run
Yap for a .dvi file.

Hope this helps.

-- 
-- Stephe





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