From: andrew.maguire@ps.ge.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Running a SFU POSIX shell on Emacs for Windows
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:13:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6192367D59F8904CA553579EF41FEEA001F0AB47@ukcbgx01psge.geips.ge.com> (raw)
Looking at shell.el it looks like you need to do the following:
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "C:\\WINNT\\System32\\posix.exe")
(setq explicit-posix.exe-args '("/u" "/c" "/bin/csh" "-l"))
Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neves-Graca, Sancho [mailto:sancho.neves-graca@sap.com]
> Sent: 15 October 2003 10:45
> To: 'help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'
> Subject: Running a SFU POSIX shell on Emacs for Windows
>
>
> I use Services for Unix (SFU) from Microsoft and would like
> to access its C shell from Emacs shell mode. This does not
> currently seem possible with the environment variable SHELL
> or the line (setq explicit-shell-file-name
> "C:\WINNT\System32\posix.exe /u /c /bin/csh -l") in the
> configuration file. The shell is started by calling posix.exe with
>
> C:\WINNT\System32\posix.exe /u /c /bin/csh -l
>
> It seems that Emacs does not pass the arguments /u /c
> /bin/csh -l to the executable posix.exe and therefore the
> shell is not started. Moving to Cygwin is not an option for
> many users of SFU. Could this missing functionality be
> considered by the Emacs development team?
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2003-10-16 11:57 Running a SFU POSIX shell on Emacs for Windows andrew.maguire
2003-10-16 10:50 Neves-Graca, Sancho
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