In article 
<dd6000ea-5ab7-411c-966d-a715f68c94c9@d42g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
 rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 6, 7:29 pm, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > rustom wrote:
> > > But I still wonder what shell is running in windows emacs?
> >
> > ,----[ C-h v shell-file-name RET ]
> > | shell-file-name is a variable defined in `src/callproc.c'.
> > | Its value is "/bin/bash"
> 
> 
> Thanks. Thats the variable I was looking for.
> It turns out to be /path/to/emacs/bin/cmdproxy.exe
> Changing it to c:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe makes it work as expected (by a
> unix user)
> 
> I wonder does emacs go out of its way to make life difficult for a
> windows user?  MS does a good job of this without help from emacs :-)
> I mean 'cmd' has one expected behavior; shell has another. Why make
> the 'shell' variable point to a cmd imitation?

I think the expectation is that shell-command should behave similarly to 
typing the command in the system's normal command line interface.  Why 
would a Windows user expect Unix-like behavior?

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