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

> Bernd Wolter <mathae.wolter@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<u4rbgmfkl.fsf@gmx.de>...
>> 
>> 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")
>> 
>
> Unfortunately, this didn't help. It seems that emacs ignores for some
> reason those statements, but how could that be? it used to work (still
> works!) perfectly under Emacs 19.34. What has changed?

You should try this within the '*scratch*' buffer with

  emacs -q 

Shell handling has changed from emacs-20 to emacs-21. You only need 
the SHELL environment variable or set the variable shell-file-name.

Harald