From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cygwin -- getting *shell* to parse pipes & other unix cmd-line stuff? Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:07:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83fw5va3hj.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349284141 21295 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2012 17:09:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:09:01 +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 Oct 03 19:09:06 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 1TJSQz-0005qh-RZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:08:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJSQu-0004UX-69 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:08:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJSQk-0004TW-6v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJSQe-0008Ic-AO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:59895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJSQe-0008IK-1y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MBB00000U54FQ00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:07:25 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MBB00MNDU8CZFD0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:07:25 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:87044 Archived-At: > From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) > Date: 3 Oct 2012 00:39:30 -0400 > > On XP, I've been using cygwin and emacs for some time now. > > One thing I have (incorrectly?) noted: > > If I do START --> run --> cmd-window, and get that > little white-on-black blackboard-like window, yes > I can run sh, etc, and it all seems to work, even > complicated command-lines. > > A problem with that (horrible) method is that: > > a: there's no way to "paste" a long command or anything > else into that window -- you have to type everything > in *by hand*. So lots of typos you wouldn't have > if you could just cut from somewhere and pasted > into that blackboard-like window. Right-click the title bar of the cmd window and select Edit->Paste. That's it! > b: no way to get it to go full-screen. Try Alt-Enter. > c: and so on. What else?