Hi Lennart, I'm sorry for late reply. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Lennart Borgman<lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've just installed Emacs-23-CvsP090630-EmacsW32-1.58 and everything >> seems to work well except one thing that I cannot start cmd-shell, >> error message say: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil > > Hi Nguyen, > > How do you try to start the cmd shell? Do you mean that you do "M-x > cmd-shell"?
Yes, I tried to do "M-x cmd-shell". > > In that case please note that cmd-shell is not a command defined in > Emacs. It is defined in w32shell.el that comes with EmacsW32. > > However it should work. It works for me. Can you turn on > debug-on-error and see if you can get a back trace with more > information? I'm not sure how to get back trace? I enabled global debug-on-error (in .emacs), then issue command "M-x cmd-shell", in mini buffer it just says "Wrong type argument: listp, "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/"" "D:/apps/Emacs" is where I installed EmacsW32 Clicking on that mini buffer, it show other text as below: Adding d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load-path For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Wrong type argument: listp, "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/" Here is my .emacs file: ========================================== (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(debug-on-error t)) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. ) ========================================== > > Could you also try just "M-x shell"? > "M-x shell" works fine, i got Windows's cmd shell after entering that command. Thanks, -- Nguyen Anh Phu
