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From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
To: Jakub Jankiewicz <jcubic@onet.pl>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:09:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sggym0sl.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200420171217.4ec21c75@jcubic> (Jakub Jankiewicz's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:12:17 +0200")

Jakub Jankiewicz <jcubic@onet.pl> writes:

>> Under windows-nt I'm using w32-shell-execute to start a Windows10
>> program.  This isn't working for Emacs-26.3 in a cygwin terminal because
>> w32-shell-execute is not bound.
>
> Why don't use you WSL, it's Linux on Windows 10, that is fully compatible
> with Windows binaries, so you can use standard way to start a process in

Good idea :-)

Installed it and it seems to be a good alternative to (other?) VMs.  But
to be fully functional I need to run graphical programs on it as well.
For example an Emacs with docview.

Do you know if this is possible?

Thanks
        Dieter
-- 
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-20 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-20  9:59 w32-shell-execute and Cygwin H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-20 15:12 ` Jakub Jankiewicz
2020-04-20 19:09   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2020-04-21  8:27     ` Jakub Jankiewicz
2020-04-20 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-20 19:49   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-21  2:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-21  8:53       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-21 14:20         ` Eli Zaretskii

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