Re: shortcut to start xemacs in bash cygwin window

[David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>]

Edwin Goei wrote:

> I would like to be able to have a Windows shortcut that will do the 
> equivalent of the following: 1) run cygwin.bat 2) execute "xemacs &" 
> in the cygwin bash window 3) exit the cygwin bash window 4) leaving 
> xemacs running.
>
> I would like to start xemacs in this way so I can have my default bash 
> enviroment initialized in xemacs.  Any ideas on to do this?
I use the following.

% cat xemacs.bat
@start /min c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c 'cygstart /usr/local/bin/xemacs'

Of course, you'll need to adjust the paths to match your environment.  
Once you make the batch file, you can make a shortcut to it in the usual 
way.

Dave



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