From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell problem: Spawning child process: invalid argument? Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 13:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2542c1f9-9e29-4916-aa16-295d5949e94c@st3g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> References: <4d8d0cea-ce39-4c02-9d25-c441aae8fbaa@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337547018 30881 80.91.229.3 (20 May 2012 20:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:50:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 20 22:50:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWD4v-0008KP-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:50:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49626 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWD4u-0005E6-Ue for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 16:50:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!st3g2000pbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1337546794 18394 127.0.0.1 (20 May 2012 20:46:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: st3g2000pbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192503 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84908 Archived-At: On May 20, 8:29=C2=A0am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Xah Lee > > Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 21:12:08 -0700 (PDT) > > > On Windows, the command needs to be =E3=80=8Clynx.exe=E3=80=8D . Withou= t the .exe, > > eshell gets confused. > > Probably because you have something else called "lynx.SOMETHING" on > Path that is caught before lynx.exe? =C2=A0A Unix shell script, perhaps? > If none of these guesses is correct, I'd say it's worth digging deeper > and maybe submitting a detailed bug report. i don't think i got anything else named lynx. In eshell, "which lynx" turns up c:/cygwin/bin/lynx.exe ... when i call the command it was generating a buffer called *lynx.exe*, iirc. every time i try to switch to eshell, always something turns up stopping me from using it... the lack of doc certainly didn't help. I'll sure report in the future if i find some issues. thanks for the extra tip. Xah