Hi Lennart (& John P jr) Thanks for your helpful replies.
I added the path to cygwin bin to Vista path & dl & added w32shell.el to my .emacs. This somehow seems to have worked & I can now open cygwin shell & window shell (with either M-x cygwin-shell or m-x shell accordingly). Perhaps the docs for this Cygwin on EmacsW32 could be a bit more expansive and clearer (but setting up Emacs on Windows isn't so straightforward). However many thanks Lennart for all your efforts to make it easier to integrate Emacs& Windows. Btw I used gcc to compile c code in cygwin and I noticed emacs c menu compile gives 'make -k' command which I need to investigate! The joys of computing! Thanks & regards Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:23 PM, rpd > <rich...@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > cygwin-shell etc comes with Emacs+EmacsW32, see > > http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Emacs-Cygwin-setup-in-Vista-help-tp25416488p25418147.html Sent from the Emacs - Windows - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
