On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Leake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Scott Plumlee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Stephen Leake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> "Scott Plumlee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> I'm running EmacsW32 with a cygwin shell inside it. All the hints I >>>> find for opening files in the running version of emacs seem to open a >>>> new frame if I try to do something like "emacsclient FILE" from the >>>> command line. Is it possible to have the file open as a new buffer? >>>> When I get the second frame, I use double the memory on the PC. >>> >>> That is possible, but I don't know how; I don't use emacsclient. >>> >>> But out of curiosity, since you are in an Emacs window, why not use >>> Emacs open file C-x C-f? It has tab completion equal to that used in >>> the cygwin bash shell (hmm, maybe it's not bash?). >>> >> >> I usually do just that, but in this case my bash directory and my >> emacs directory weren't laying nice. They would be in two separate >> places, so I'd have to change one of them to make things work. Turns >> out I had misconfigured some .bashrc and .emacs settings, now they are >> playing nice and I don't have to bother with emacsclient. >> >> (details at http://plumlee.org/blog/2008/07/24/emacs-cygwin-and-autocomplete/ >> if you are bored/interested) > > Yes, you must have CDPATH as well as PATH matching between bash and > Emacs. That's because bash is doing the cd, but Emacs is doing the > completion. Emacs needs to track your cd commands so it can do > completion. So if you do: > > /bar$ cd foo > > but that actually results in: > > /bar/bing/foo$ > > Then Emacs will think you are in '/bar/foo', if it doesn't know CDPATH.
I finally ended up doing about 10 test cases before I got things working, and that summation above is what I wish I had when all this started. Where were you 10 hours ago? :) I need to read more documentation, I think.
