How to make cygwin/bash shell work in emacs

[Roman Adar]

Ehud

Thanks for your help and your patience.

1. I've set the 1st line in my /etc/profile to "set -x"
2. When I invoke the cygwin shell now I see what happens.
3. M-x, "getenv RET BASH_ENV RET" does not do anything, as this function can
not be called from command line. I can do "setenv" and tried to set it to
/etc/profile again.
4. I run the ./runemacs.exe from cygwin prompt.
5. I can see that there is error when emacs starts, at the bottom:

Error in init file: Symbol's value as variable is void: BASH_ENV.

Is there another place that I've to set this env variable ?

6. Attached please find my "profile" and ".emacs" files if you would like to
have a look at them.

I'll appreciate if you could point what could be wrong ?

Thanks again

Roman

-----Original Message-----
From: Ehud Karni [ mailto:ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:18 AM
To: Roman Adar
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to make cygwin/bash shell work in emacs


On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:20:27 -0700, Roman Adar <radar@cacheware.com> wrote:
>
> Adding the: (setenv "BASH_ENV" "/etc/profile") to my .emacs file did not
> solve the problem of the path, where the "perl" is picked from. It still
> stays /usr/bin.

Debug it. Check that you really set the Emacs env by M-x getenv RET
BASH_ENV RET. Also check the values of the Emacs variables:
`sh-shell-file' and `shell-file-name' (they should be "bash" NOT "sh").
Add set -x as the 1st line of your /etc/profile and check if it is
called or any later command changes the PATH.

Just to give you hope, I can tell you that it works fine for me and
other users.

Ehud.


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set -x
PATH="$PATH:usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
unset DOSDRIVE
unset DOSDIR
unset TMPDIR
unset TMP

USER="`id -un`"

# Set up USER's home directory
if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
  HOME="/home/$USER"
fi

if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
  mkdir -p "$HOME"
fi

export HOME USER

for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
  if [ -f $i ]; then
    . $i
  fi
done

export MAKE_MODE=unix
export PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
$ '

cd "$HOME"

test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc