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.
