From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Owens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .mailcap on Windows / launching file attachments with "meadow" or "cygstart" etc. Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113412019 4707 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2005 17:06:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:06:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 13 19:06:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLlIz-0007eR-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:05:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLktX-0006hJ-Ft for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:39:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLkq9-0005Sh-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLkq0-0005PO-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:35:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLkq0-0005An-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:35:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DLl1u-00019h-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DLkxz-0004CW-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:43:53 +0200 Original-Received: from weetabix.ece.ucdavis.edu ([169.237.74.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:43:51 +0200 Original-Received: from john_owens by weetabix.ece.ucdavis.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:43:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 169.237.74.64 (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35937 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35937 John Owens yahoo.com> writes: > I have never got this to work under emacs on Windows. I was using the 21.3 > release for a while, recently updated to the CVS build from 30 January > (above), and have tried a number of .mailcap entries to make this work. And it turns out that setting the environment variable SHELL to "tcsh" was the culprit; commenting that out allowed everything to work A-OK. JDO