On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:22 PM, John A Pershing Jr <pers...@optonline.net> wrote: > rpd wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I guess this question has been asked before but I want to open cygwin bash >> shell in Emacs (Vista O/S). >> >> > > I'm probably missing something fundamental -- however, I have C:\cygwin\bin > in my (Windoze) PATH, right after the various C:\WINDOWS directories, and I > have the line: > > (setq explicit-shell-file-name "C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe") > > in my .emacs file, and it just works. I also have a file .emacs_bash.exe > containing the single line: > > . .bash_profile > > since the Emacs 'shell' command does not pass the --login option to the > shell.
Yes, that it is more problematic if you want to change between different shells.
