Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram....@gmail.com> writes: > "bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device > bash: no job control in this shell" > > is what I get when I launch shell. It works but with the annoying > echo of the current directory.
This is from the ~/.bashrc that Cygwin installs by default, or some similar system-level file. You can override that for bash under Emacs by creating a file ~/.emacs-bash, and setting the prompt the way you want it in that. See Emacs info, Shell Mode, for more.. -- -- Stephe