From: Water Lin <WaterLin@ymail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:15:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ocq9bsle.fsf@ymail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87my5trdj3.fsf@iki.fi
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.
--
Water Lin's blog: http://blog.waterlin.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-21 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 1:35 How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP? Water Lin
2009-08-21 4:34 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-21 6:15 ` Water Lin [this message]
2009-08-22 1:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83ocq9bsle.fsf@ymail.com \
--to=waterlin@ymail.com \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).