Re: How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP?

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Teemu Likonen wrote:
> On 2009-08-21 09:35 (+0800), Water Lin wrote:
> 
>> I want to use ansi-term under Windows XP. But while I use command M-x
>> ansi-term, Emacs will prompt "Run program:". What should I do to fill
>> this prompt?
> 
> First some theory (which you might be already familiar with). Emacs
> ansi-term is a text terminal which means that it's a kind of
> input/output device. Text terminal can run any kind of program so the
> question would be, what program do you want to run in the terminal?
> 
> Often the first program to run in a terminal is a some kind of
> command-line interpreter (aka shell) which can then be used to run other
> programs. I don't know much about Windows but is there a separate
> command-line interpreter program in the system? I think you could try
> "cmd.exe". But I'm not sure if Windows programs works in a Unix-like
> terminal.

Wouldn't the same program run by `M-x shell' be a good default for
`M-x term'? (absent previous history for `M-x term')

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA