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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> 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?


For the record: We cleared this out in a private conversation. If you 
use the command above from the menu then this will add the path to 
gnuwin32 binaries that comes with EmacsW32. If you do it another way you 
have to add them yourself.