From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell-command parameters Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:45:30 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1231256796.108337@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <67385669-7b4e-4bac-bc95-1f64689b6379@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com> <81eizhzxhq.fsf@myhost.sbcglobal.net> <818wppsa7o.fsf@myhost.sbcglobal.net> <72a44850-9df5-44f2-99d4-5aa90b48c15d@w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com> 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 1231260103 21918 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2009 16:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:41:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 06 17:42:54 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 1LKF13-0003jo-DJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:42:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36713 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LKEzn-0004jF-QK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:41:35 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.arglkargh.de!news.n-ix.net!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1231256853 29676 143.93.54.11 (6 Jan 2009 15:47:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:47:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-217-015.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165783 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:61118 Archived-At: rustom wrote: > On Jan 6, 7:29 pm, Kevin Rodgers 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? > > (Sorry to grumble) > > Is it possible to remember the calls to these shell calls (made with > M-!) across emacs invocations -- the way bash remembers? savehist-mode ? -ap