Re: [h-e-w] The bash shell from Emacs

[Harald Maier]

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> Hello,
>
> I have installed Emacs-21.3, thanks to all who have reminded me that
> I needed to set the environment variable "HOME" and locate my .emacs
> there in order for emacs to find it, and the bash shell from Cygwin.
> Starting bash outside of Emacs yields the usual results, I can use
> it no problems.  When I start bash from Emacs through the "shell"
> command a shell buffer is opened and I get the bash prompt BUT bash
> doesn't recognize any command.
>
> bash-2.05b$ ls
> : command not found
> bash-2.05b$ pwd
> : command not found
> bash-2.05b$ exit
> : command not found
> bash-2.05b$

I have this too if I have a bogus LANG environment. E.g. "LANG=deu".
My workaround is to set the LANG to "C".

Harald