Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/12/12/16:03:29
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:00:39PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 12 11:59, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> On 12/12/2005 2:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > But I can't reproduce this grep problem since I'm unable to start the
>> > above grep. The grep submenu is entirely greyed out when I look into
>> > it.
>>
>> I didn't mention the grep submenu. Here's a set of more detailed
>> instructions.
>>
>> Here they are again:
>> 1. From a CMD.EXE shell, type
>> c:\cygwin\bin\bash -lc 'setsid xemacs -q'
>> 2. In XEmacs, press ALT-x (hold ALT key, press x key, release x key,
>> release ALT key)
>
>Doesn't work for me because Alt-X is bound to a KDE command, that's
>the reason I tried the menu. It seems that Esc-X works, though, but
>then...
>
>> 3. XEmacs will prompt for a command. The prompt will already have
>> "grep -n ". Just add (without quotes) "-i system /etc/passwd" and
>> then press Enter.
>
>...this doesn't work either. After pressing Esc-X, I'm in the last
>line of the emacs window. The line just has a "M-x" prompt. When
>I enter "grep" and then press the space key, I get "[no match]". I'm
>completely unable to enter a useful command at this point.
I get the same behavior when I type ALT-X.
cgf
(also mainly emacs/xemacs illiterate)
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