Re: [h-e-w] msys and locate problem with eshell

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Ryan Krauss wrote:
> I am using msys as my shell for eshell.  I am getting the following 
> warning:
> Warning (w32shell): When using 'msys' program 'locate' can't be found
>
> There is a locate.exe in the folder C:\Program
> Files\Emacs\EmacsW32\gnuwin32\bin which is in my windows path.  But
> apparently this is not enough.  I don't have a locate.exe in the mysys
> folder.  What do I do to fix this?



I am not very familiar with eshell and I did not cover its use in 
EmacsW32. eshell and MSYS are two very different things.

eshell is an emulation of a unix style shell and some unix style programs.

MSYS contains a port of GNU Bash and some other GNU unix style programs 
to MS Windows. You can run MSYS bash as a program in an Emacs buffer. 
You then communicate with that program through Emacs (and it is called 
an "inferior" program for this reason in Emacs).

In EmacsW32 I have tried to make it a bit easier to run MSYS or Cygwin 
as inferior shells. You can start such shells from the menus

   Tools - W32 Shells - MSYS Shell


Can you tell me exactly what you were doing?