Hi I guess this question has been asked before but I want to open cygwin bash shell in Emacs (Vista O/S).
I have Cygwin installed but cannot yet open it from Emacs. From my internet search I have added Cygwin-mount.el. This is what I have in my .emacs (v22.3): ;;;;===EMACS CYGWIN (GCC) & Vista====== ;;; ;;To use shell/cmd prompt use M-x shell but ;;To use BASH (cygwin) shell use M-x cygwin-shell ;;xxxxx EMACS & CYGWIN========== ;; (load "C:\\Users\\Dad\\Emacs\\emacsaddons\\cygwin-mount.el") (setenv "PATH" (concat "c:\\cygwin\\bin;" (getenv "PATH"))) (setq exec-path (cons "c:\\cygwin\\bin" exec-path)) (require 'cygwin-mount) (cygwin-mount-activate) ;;http://xahlee.blogspot.com/2009/06/cygwin-tutorial-and-notes.html ;;Cygwin and EmacsW32 ;;If you are using emacsW32, then you can go to the cygwin shell by calling the command cygwin-shell. ;;First, you need to set the cygwin-shell path. This you can do by pulling the menu ;; under “Options‣Customize emacsW32”. Or, you can put the following line in your .emacs: ;;“(setq w32shell-cygwin-bin "C:\\cygwin\\bin")”. ;;Once you have the w32shell-cygwin-bin set, the command “shell” will also invoke cygwin-shell. ;;If you want run plain Windows's “cmd.exe” shell, you can call cmd-shell. EmacsW32 also has msys-shell, ;; which is for those who are using MinGW. ;;Note, when using cygwin shell in emacsW32, if the $PATH env var is not set correctly, it can cause ;; Window to mistakingly popup a dialogue saying some program crashed. ;; For a example, see: http://xah-forum.blogspot.com/2009/06/cygwinimagemagickemacsw32-causes-vista.html. (setq exec-path (cons "C:\\cygwin\\bin" exec-path)) (setq w32shell-cygwin-bin "C:\\cygwin\\bin") ;; ;;http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CygWin ;; ;=== Using M-x shell -I get Windows command shell Using M-x cygwin-shell ret I get 'no match' I am most grateful if someone could advise on what I need to do to open cygwin shell. I look forward to helpful replies so I can do this, many thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Emacs-Cygwin-setup-in-Vista-help-tp25416488p25416488.html Sent from the Emacs - Windows - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
