From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP? Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:24:48 -0600 Message-ID: References: <83d46qoso3.fsf@ymail.com> <87my5trdj3.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250904347 22313 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2009 01:25:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:25:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 22 03:25:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MefMS-0006Fr-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:25:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MefMR-0005F7-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MefM4-0005CL-9U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MefLz-00056H-RB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51647 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MefLz-00055u-K1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:45117) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MefLz-0006Rq-0r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MefLx-0006A8-BY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:25:09 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:25:09 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:25:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) In-Reply-To: <87my5trdj3.fsf@iki.fi> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67371 Archived-At: 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') -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA