Re: offical Emacs 22.1: `term' problem on MS Windows

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Peter Tury wrote:
> Then I digged into the code and saw that  term-exec-1 from term.el
> uses "/bin/sh" unconditionally. I tried to comment it out, so I got:
>
> "
>     (apply 'start-process name buffer
> ;;	   "/bin/sh" "-c"
> ;;	   (format "stty -nl echo rows %d columns %d sane 2>/dev/null;\
> ;;if [ $1 = .. ]; then shift; fi; exec \"$@\""
> ;;		   term-height term-width)
> ;;	   ".."
> 	   command switches)))
> "
> and, for first sight it seems to work (since `command' has write
> value: "C:/Program Files/emacs-22.1/bin/cmdproxy.exe").
>   

It might seem to work for some definition of "work", but it is no longer 
a terminal emulator if you remove those lines, and you might as well 
just use M-x shell.

AFAIK there is no way to get M-x term working on Windows, as its 
implementation of terminals is completely different and undocumented.