From: Jeffrey DeLeo <JeffreyDeLeo@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comint and windows
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 10:26:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnb8nvzn.fsf@JUbuntu.dharma.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4b118c46-2d1a-4547-b889-02153639a401@googlegroups.com
I used to use emacs regularly on Windows, along with cygwin. I no longer
do. I did use shell and other processes successfully, this is from my
.emacs on Windows. I can't say what is relevant anymore, though.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun my-shell-setup ()
"For Cygwin bash under Emacs 20"
(setq comint-scroll-show-maximum-output 'this)
(make-variable-buffer-local 'comint-completion-addsuffix))
(setq shell-file-name "bash")
(setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name)
(setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name)
(setq explicit-shell-args '("--login" "-i"))
(setq shell-command-switch "-ic")
(setq explicit-bash-args '("--noediting"))
(setq comint-completion-addsuffix t)
;(setq comint-process-echoes t) ;; reported that this is no longer needed
(setq comint-eol-on-send t)
(setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")
(setq shell-mode-hook 'my-shell-setup)
;; Prevent issues with the Windows null device (NUL)
;; when using cygwin find with rgrep.
(defadvice grep-compute-defaults (around grep-compute-defaults-advice-null-device)
"Use cygwin's /dev/null as the null-device."
(let ((null-device "/dev/null"))
ad-do-it))
(ad-activate 'grep-compute-defaults)
#+END_SRC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-05 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-05 8:12 Comint and windows Sam Halliday
2015-11-05 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-05 18:26 ` Jeffrey DeLeo [this message]
2015-11-06 13:04 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-11-06 15:49 ` Jeffrey DeLeo
[not found] ` <mailman.1777.1446740565.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-07 17:21 ` Sam Halliday
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