Re: [h-e-w] Unable to launch cygwin bash (M-x shell) in win 7 64 bit

[Stephen Leake]

Sivaram Neelakantan <address@hidden> writes:

> "bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
> bash: no job control in this shell"
>
> is what I get when I launch shell.  It works but with the annoying
> echo of the current directory.

This is from the ~/.bashrc that Cygwin installs by default, or some
similar system-level file.

You can override that for bash under Emacs by creating a file
~/.emacs-bash, and setting the prompt the way you want it in that.

See Emacs info, Shell Mode, for more..

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-- Stephe