Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
1. How do I find the current process-coding system? I didn't see any
variables or functions that give that information. I found functions to change
it but not to give the current value.
describe-coding-system displays it if you accept the default (current
choices)
2. In the situation above, PATH did not include cygwin. I added it with
PATH=c:/cygwin/bin/:$PATH
but it still wasn't correctly recognized:
/cygdrive/c/HOME/rmh$ PATH=c:/cygwin/bin/:$PATH
Once you are in Cygwin, you must use cygwin paths (/cygdrive/cygwin/bin,
or /bin). Since : is a separator, c:/cygwin/bin/ is interpreted by
Cygwin as the two paths "c" and "/cygwin/bin".
But one of the bash startup files should set the path correctly for
Cygwin programs. Perhaps the HOME directory is different when running
under Emacs, so it cannot find the startup files?
