From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: cygwin -- getting *shell* to parse pipes & other unix cmd-line stuff? Date: 3 Oct 2012 00:39:30 -0400 Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349239249 29636 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2012 04:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:40:49 +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 06:40:54 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 1TJGkw-0004La-N0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:40:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33474 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJGkn-00080U-TN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:40:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1349239170 29714 166.84.1.2 (3 Oct 2012 04:39:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194700 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:87036 Archived-At: 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. b: no way to get it to go full-screen. c: and so on. But yes, you can at least run a unix command-line, pipes, `expand me exprs`, etc, all that good stuff. ---- What would be really NICE would to be able to do that from *shell*. But I don't seem able to run the cygwin "sh" or "tcsh" in *shell*. I can run cygwin stuff ok, but not in complicated unix-like commands; it works for me only if I do it one thing at a time, via simple commands. Question: is there a way to run complex command-lines in *shell*? If so, how? thanks! David