From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-x shell RET on Windows not working
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:25:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <umyq1kp7j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80a77d75-9e56-4b8f-8c02-2ce5e3e0056a@c33g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> (message from coskun on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:08:09 -0800 (PST))
> From: coskun <coskun.hasan.dr@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:08:09 -0800 (PST)
>
> On Feb 15, 4:11 pm, Mike Treseler <mike_trese...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > * coskun (2008-02-15) writes:
> >
> > >> `M-x shell <RET>' does not work. When I try that, a shell buffer is
> > >> created, but I don't get a prompt.
> >
> > does cmd.exe work at a dos prompt?
> >
> > check:
> > customize-variable shell-dumb-shell-regexp
> >
> > -- Mike Treseler
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using Vista. I don't know how to start in MS-DOS mode, or even if
> that's possible.
He didn't say "start in MS-DOS mode", he said "at a dos prompt", which
is an (admittedly misleading) way of asking you to open a "Command
Prompt" window and see if you can get cmd.exe, the Windows shell, to
work there. "Command Prompt" should be somewhere on your
Start->Programs->Accessories menu.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-16 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-14 3:50 problem with toolbar commands coskun
2008-02-14 6:53 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-14 14:44 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-02-14 19:37 ` coskun
2008-02-14 21:02 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-14 22:37 ` coskun
2008-02-15 6:57 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-15 12:45 ` coskun
2008-02-15 21:13 ` M-x shell RET on Windows not working (was: problem with toolbar commands) Ralf Angeli
2008-02-15 22:11 ` M-x shell RET on Windows not working Mike Treseler
2008-02-16 4:08 ` coskun
2008-02-16 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.7477.1203168359.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-16 17:27 ` coskun
2008-02-17 23:50 ` coskun
2008-02-18 3:11 ` coskun
2008-02-18 3:11 ` nullius.filius
2008-02-18 3:28 ` coskun
2008-02-18 21:21 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-18 3:11 ` Mike Treseler
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