Re: [h-e-w] Emacs Cygwin setup in Vista help

[rpd]

Hi Lennart (& John P jr)

Thanks for your helpful replies.

I added the path to cygwin bin to Vista path & dl & added w32shell.el to my
.emacs.
This somehow seems to have worked & I can now open cygwin shell & window
shell (with either M-x cygwin-shell or m-x shell accordingly).

Perhaps the docs for this Cygwin on EmacsW32 could be a bit more expansive
and clearer (but setting up Emacs on Windows isn't so straightforward).
However many thanks Lennart for all your efforts to make it easier to
integrate Emacs& Windows.

Btw I used gcc to compile c code in cygwin and I noticed emacs c menu
compile gives 'make -k' command which I need to investigate! The joys of
computing!

Thanks & regards

  


Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:23 PM, rpd
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I guess this question has been asked before but I want to open cygwin
>> bash
>> shell in Emacs (Vista O/S).
>>
>> I have Cygwin installed but cannot yet open it from Emacs. From my
>> internet
>> search I have added Cygwin-mount.el.
>>
>> This is what I have in my .emacs (v22.3):
>> ;;;;===EMACS CYGWIN (GCC) & Vista======
>> ;;;
>> ;;To use shell/cmd prompt use M-x shell but
>> ;;To use BASH (cygwin) shell use M-x cygwin-shell
>> ;;xxxxx EMACS & CYGWIN==========
>> ;;
>> (load "C:\\Users\\Dad\\Emacs\\emacsaddons\\cygwin-mount.el")
>> (setenv "PATH" (concat "c:\\cygwin\\bin;" (getenv "PATH")))
>> (setq exec-path (cons "c:\\cygwin\\bin" exec-path))
>> (require 'cygwin-mount)
>> (cygwin-mount-activate)
>> ;;http://xahlee.blogspot.com/2009/06/cygwin-tutorial-and-notes.html
>> ;;Cygwin and EmacsW32
>> ;;If you are using emacsW32, then you can go to the cygwin shell by
>> calling
>> the command cygwin-shell.
>> ;;First, you need to set the cygwin-shell path. This you can do by
>> pulling
>> the menu
>> ;; under “Options‣Customize emacsW32”. Or, you can put the following line
>> in
>> your .emacs:
>> ;;“(setq w32shell-cygwin-bin "C:\\cygwin\\bin")”.
>> ;;Once you have the w32shell-cygwin-bin set, the command “shell” will
>> also
>> invoke cygwin-shell.
>> ;;If you want run plain Windows's “cmd.exe” shell, you can call
>> cmd-shell.
>> EmacsW32 also has msys-shell,
>> ;; which is for those who are using MinGW.
>> ;;Note, when using cygwin shell in emacsW32, if the $PATH env var is not
>> set
>> correctly, it can cause
>> ;; Window to mistakingly popup a dialogue saying some program crashed.
>> ;; For a example, see:
>> http://xah-forum.blogspot.com/2009/06/cygwinimagemagickemacsw32-causes-vista.html.
>> (setq exec-path (cons "C:\\cygwin\\bin" exec-path))
>> (setq w32shell-cygwin-bin "C:\\cygwin\\bin")
>> ;;
>> ;;http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CygWin
>> ;;
>> ;===
>>
>> Using M-x shell -I get Windows command shell
>> Using M-x cygwin-shell ret I get 'no match'
>>
>> I am most grateful if someone could advise on what I need to do to open
>> cygwin shell.
>> I look forward to helpful replies so I can do this, many thanks
> 
> 
> cygwin-shell etc comes with Emacs+EmacsW32, see
> 
>   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html
> 
> 
> 
> 

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