Re: shortcut to start xemacs in bash cygwin window

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, David Rothenberger wrote:

> 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

FWIW, you can dispense with the batch file, and simply make a shortcut to
"C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c 'cygstart /usr/bin/xemacs'"[*].  You can
then set the shortcut to start minimized.
	Igor
[*] I put /usr/bin/xemacs here, since xemacs is now a Cygwin package.
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