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
next prev parent 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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