Re: cygwin shell problem

>>>>> "Peekay" == Peekay Chan <Chan> writes:

    Peekay> Hi all, I have downloaded and compiled xemacs 21.5.10 for
    Peekay> both Cygwin Native and Windows Native.  Everything works
    Peekay> great except the Bash shell.

    Peekay> My init.el

    >>>>>>>>>>>> 

    Peekay>  (setq exec-path (cons "c:/cygwin/bin" exec-path))

    Peekay> (setq process-coding-system-alist '(("bash" . undecided-unix)))

    Peekay> (setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")

    Peekay> (setq shell-file-name "bash")

    Peekay> (setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name)

    Peekay> (setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name)

    Peekay> (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions

    Peekay>           'comint-strip-ctrl-m)

    Peekay> (setq shell-command-switch "-exec")

Try
(setq shell-command-switch "-c")
instead.

    >>>>>>>>>>>> 

 

    Peekay> Problem #1: The cygwin shell and xemacs dir are out of sync.  When I type
    Peekay> "cd c:" in the shell, cygwin changes to /cygdrive/c, then when I type "dirs"
    Peekay> in xemacs, it complains "c:\cygdrive\c" is not a directory.

 

    Peekay> Problem #2: When I press tab for auto-completion directory, it always use
    Peekay> "\" as in Windows Command Prompt.

 

    Peekay> I have a feeling these are related but just couldn't figure out what is
    Peekay> causing it.

 

    Peekay> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

 

    Peekay> Peekay


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