Is it worth trying to get the bash shell provided with MSYS to
run as a shell in Emacs? If it is possible and productive, how
can one achieve it?
Among the issues:
0. Using Emacs's compile command.
1. Allowing Emacs to handle error reports out of gcc, so that
Emacs will take you straight to the code line of a reported
problem.
2. Running gdb in Emacs.
No Cygwin here.
I know I can run bash as my shell in Emacs. However, I think the
issue here is to get the same environment that the MSYS shell has
so that gcc will work correctly. I only just recently installed
MinGW, and I have very little experience with it; so please do
not hesitate to point out any wrong assumptions I am making.
Right now, I am compiling using the MSYS console and then
switching back to an Emacs shell to execute the compiled program
so that I can more easily access its standard output as text.
(The copy and paste functionality of the MSYS console is pretty
clumsy.) I am manually tracking down compiler error reports, and
I have not even tried to use gdb yet. My OS is Windows XP.
Regards,
David V.
