At 04:25 PM 7/30/99 -0400, Aris Mulyono wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:30:26PM -0700, Eric Friedman wrote:
>> You've installed bash, but have you told emacs that you want to use it
>> as your shell? I believe Paul's documentation includes instructions
>> on how to accomplish this. (I am not a windoze user and so cannot help
>> you any further than that).
>Yes I have included Paul's doc in my $HOME/_emacs file:
>
>;; Using bash shell in emacs
>(setq binary-process-input t)
>(setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")
>(setq shell-file-name "/bin/bash") ;; or sh if you rename your bash
>(setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name)
>(setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name)
>(setq explicit-sh-args '("-login" "-i"))
>
>I found out that I can't execute any shell command in emacs at all.
>"(Shell command failed with no output)" is the message everytime
>I tried to execute shell command.
>I have no problem at all executing any command in bash directly.
>
>Is it my cygnus tool or emacs installation problem? let me research
>what I did to their installation in the meantime.
Hard to say since we don't have a COMPLETE copy of your .emacs file
and we don't know what versions of Emacs and cygwin you are using.
- Paul
