Re: [h-e-w] MSYS bash shell in Emacs?

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 27.06.2011 0:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "David Vanderschel"<address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:24:52 -0500
> >
> > Is it worth trying to get the bash shell provided with MSYS to
> > run as a shell in Emacs?
>
> IMO, no.  It's probably possible, given enough tinkering, but why
> would you want to?  Emacs on Windows can do just fine without Bash; if
> you have features that don't work without that, please tell the
> details.
I like wildcard operation on files, like M-! rm *.txt RET.

But with native Emacs + Cygwin + cygwin-mount.el.

> Anyway, MSYS is just a fork of Cygwin.  Its main purpose is to allow
> MinGW developers run Unix configure scripts to configure GNU software
> for being built with MinGW.  Once the configure script ran, MSYS's job
> is done, and you are not supposed to need it anymore.  In fact, the
> MSYS developers advise to stay away of MSYS _except_ for running the
> configure scripts.
Because of this do not try use MSYS for other purpose.
You only get many issue. Like sed command is too old and doesn't support
'-i' option, etc.

If you want Linux like environment use Cygwin instead!

Cygwin always come with latest Emacs release which pretty nice
integrated with Cygwin.

MSYS __ONLY__ for running the configure scripts!!