Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows

[Jason Rumney]

Richard M. Heiberger wrote:

> 1.  How do I find the current process-coding system?  I didn't see any
> variables or functions that give that information.  I found functions to change
> it but not to give the current value.
>  
describe-coding-system displays it if you accept the default (current 
choices)

> 2. In the situation above, PATH did not include cygwin.  I added it with
>      PATH=c:/cygwin/bin/:$PATH
> but it still wasn't correctly recognized:
>
> /cygdrive/c/HOME/rmh$ PATH=c:/cygwin/bin/:$PATH
>  
Once you are in Cygwin, you must use cygwin paths (/cygdrive/cygwin/bin, 
or /bin). Since : is a separator, c:/cygwin/bin/ is interpreted by 
Cygwin as the two paths "c" and "/cygwin/bin".

But one of the bash startup files should set the path correctly for 
Cygwin programs. Perhaps the HOME directory is different when running 
under Emacs, so it cannot find the startup files?