RE: Problem launching cygwin shell from xemacs

Thanks Steven

It helped! 

Exactly what I needed.

Thanks
Karl 

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott, Steven [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 15 December 2003 16:27
To: Karl Nilsson; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Problem launching cygwin shell from xemacs

Karl, 
 
I had a similar problem recently.  Apparently there is a problem on the
Cygwin side that they have fixed, but not put into the latest release.
There is a "snapshot" patch for cygwin that you can install.  Have a look at
the following to see if it is relevant.
 
Best,
Steve Scott
 

>       http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00624.html 
(description of the problem)
 
and
 
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC20 <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC20>
> information on how to install snapshots. 


	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Karl Nilsson [mailto:[email protected]] 
	Sent: Mon 12/15/2003 1:39 AM 
	To: [email protected] 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Problem launching cygwin shell from xemacs 
	
	

	Hi, 

	We have got the cygwin version of xemacs installed on about 140 pc's
all 
	running windows xp and they are all experiencing problems when
launching a 
	shell from xemacs(M-x shell eg.). Basically xemacs crashes at this
point. I 
	was told by someone (that knows more about xemacs than me) to put
this is 
	the init.el file: 

	(setq exec-path (cons "d:\\cygwin\\bin" exec-path) (setenv "PATH"
(concat 
	"d:\\cygwin\\bin;" (getenv "PATH"))) (setq
process-coding-system-alist 
	'(("bash" . undecided-unix))) (setq shell-file-name "bash") (setenv
"SHELL" 
	shell-file-name) (setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name) 

	I tried but it didn't work, unfortunately. Xemacs still crashes when
trying 
	to load the shell. 
	Can anyone else offer any advice of what I could do to get this to
work? My 
	knowledge of xemacs/emacs is very limited so apologies if I have not

	provided the right/enough information. Currently we are using the
latest 
	Cygwin and the latest xemacs net installations. I have been told
(but not 
	able to confirm) that it used to work in an earlier distribution of 
	Cygwin/xemacs. 

	Thanks and regards 
	Karl