From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:28:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7xegosa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861roio4u3.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de)
> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:59:32 +0200
>
> Under windows-nt I'm using w32-shell-execute to start a Windows10
> program. This isn't working for Emacs-26.3 in a cygwin terminal because
> w32-shell-execute is not bound.
>
> Do you know a cygwin alternative for w32-shell-execute? I guess
> start-process will do but I don't need a subprocess for this independent
> application.
Can't you use the Cygwin/w32 build of Emacs, i.e. a Cygwin build which
uses MS-Windows native GUI widgets? That build does support
w32-shell-execute function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-20 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-20 9:59 w32-shell-execute and Cygwin H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-20 15:12 ` Jakub Jankiewicz
2020-04-20 19:09 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-21 8:27 ` Jakub Jankiewicz
2020-04-20 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-04-20 19:49 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-21 2:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-21 8:53 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-21 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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