Re: shell problems after upgrading NTEmacs from 19.34 to 21.2

[Bernd Wolter <mathae.wolter@gmx.de>]

swengtoo@my-deja.com (Swengtoo) writes:


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> Has anyone encountered this problem before? Do you know about
> something that has changed and is missing from the above code? I know
> I can "play" with the SHELL registry entry for emacs, but the
> documentation clearly says that if I want to avoid that I can use
> (setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name).
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> Swengtoo

Hi Swengtoo,

I have a setup nearly identical to yours but also set those
environmental variables before doing the other stuff:

     (setenv "SHELL" "c:/path/to/cygwin/bash.exe")
     (setenv "PATH" "c:/path/to/cygwin/bin:c:/path/to/cygwin:c:/path/to/emacs/bin")

Perhaps this helps

bernd