How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP?

How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP?

[Water Lin]

I want to use ansi-term under Windows XP.

But while I use command M-x ansi-term, Emacs will prompt "Run program:".

What should I do to fill this prompt?

I am not sure if I need to install something else in my Windows XP...

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Re: How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP?

[Teemu Likonen]

On 2009-08-21 09:35 (+0800), Water Lin wrote:

> I want to use ansi-term under Windows XP. But while I use command M-x
> ansi-term, Emacs will prompt "Run program:". What should I do to fill
> this prompt?

First some theory (which you might be already familiar with). Emacs
ansi-term is a text terminal which means that it's a kind of
input/output device. Text terminal can run any kind of program so the
question would be, what program do you want to run in the terminal?

Often the first program to run in a terminal is a some kind of
command-line interpreter (aka shell) which can then be used to run other
programs. I don't know much about Windows but is there a separate
command-line interpreter program in the system? I think you could try
"cmd.exe". But I'm not sure if Windows programs works in a Unix-like
terminal.

Re: How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP?

[Water Lin]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> On 2009-08-21 09:35 (+0800), Water Lin wrote:
>
>> I want to use ansi-term under Windows XP. But while I use command M-x
>> ansi-term, Emacs will prompt "Run program:". What should I do to fill
>> this prompt?
>
> First some theory (which you might be already familiar with). Emacs
> ansi-term is a text terminal which means that it's a kind of
> input/output device. Text terminal can run any kind of program so the
> question would be, what program do you want to run in the terminal?
>
> Often the first program to run in a terminal is a some kind of
> command-line interpreter (aka shell) which can then be used to run other
> programs. I don't know much about Windows but is there a separate
> command-line interpreter program in the system? I think you could try
> "cmd.exe". But I'm not sure if Windows programs works in a Unix-like
> terminal.

Ok. I got you now. Thanks, I can try it.

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Water Lin's blog: http://blog.waterlin.org

Re: How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Teemu Likonen wrote:
> On 2009-08-21 09:35 (+0800), Water Lin wrote:
> 
>> I want to use ansi-term under Windows XP. But while I use command M-x
>> ansi-term, Emacs will prompt "Run program:". What should I do to fill
>> this prompt?
> 
> First some theory (which you might be already familiar with). Emacs
> ansi-term is a text terminal which means that it's a kind of
> input/output device. Text terminal can run any kind of program so the
> question would be, what program do you want to run in the terminal?
> 
> Often the first program to run in a terminal is a some kind of
> command-line interpreter (aka shell) which can then be used to run other
> programs. I don't know much about Windows but is there a separate
> command-line interpreter program in the system? I think you could try
> "cmd.exe". But I'm not sure if Windows programs works in a Unix-like
> terminal.

Wouldn't the same program run by `M-x shell' be a good default for
`M-x term'? (absent previous history for `M-x term')

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA