Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:32:22 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: Edwin Goei Subject: Re: shortcut to start xemacs in bash cygwin window In-Reply-To: <4067272E.50400@acm.org> Message-ID: References: <406721C3.2070203@sun.com> <4067272E.50400@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 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. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/