From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David R Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:54:07 +0100 Message-ID: <46785077$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> References: <46778b23$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.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: sea.gmane.org 1182292842 5871 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 22:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 00:40:40 2007 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 1I0mNG-0006I8-Nw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0mNG-0003D7-B6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:40:34 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.43.112.206 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-X-Trace: 19 Jun 2007 22:54:03 +0100, mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.astraweb.com!newsrouter-eu.astraweb.com!tiscali!newsfeed2.ip.tiscali.net!212.74.112.120.MISMATCH!mk-nntp-1.news.uk.tiscali.com!mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149586 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:45174 Archived-At: yes this worked thanks Unfortunately egrep seems to run via a windows cmd shell My cygwin shell can do a "cd /usr/dict" Unfortunately the cmd shell need a "cd c:\cygwin\usr\dict" So I have had to put the words list in a file called words located at c:\usr\dict This approach is far from satisfactory but works Is there any way I tell tell emacs to use egrep through a cygwin shell not a cmd shell? David R