From: sup AT cri DOT dk (Steen Ulrik Palm) Subject: Re: Bash Problems 16 May 1997 19:56:37 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <337C272C.173C.cygnus.gnu-win32@cri.dk> References: <33796F53 DOT 4F7C AT cri DOT dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Organization: Computer Resources International A/S, Bregneroedvej 144, DK-3460 Birkeroed, Denmark X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Original-To: Peter Dalgaard BSA

Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > > Steen Ulrik Palm writes: > > > > > I have downloaded and installed the 18b version of the gnu-win32 user > > tools under Windows 95. Bash has now been defined as the default shell > > in Emacs and bash runs smoothly within a *shell* buffer. > > Heyyy!! What a neat trick! Would you mind putting a small document > together on how you did that? (Which Emacs version, etc.) > I use NT Emacs (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html) which seems to be a fairly nice port of GNU Emacs 19.34 to NT/Win95 (I have only used it for a couple of weeks so this is not an expert speaking). It is possible to copy/paste between Emacs and any other Win95 application (including the DOS box). In the Emacs window the copying/pasting is done solely by means of the mouse. To make bash your default shell in Emacs place the definition `set SHELL=\bash.exe' in autoexec.bat and add the below lines to your .emacs file: (setq win32-quote-process-args t) (setq shell-command-switch "-c") and you should be in business! (This is also described in ntemacs.html which is a pretty good README kind of file.) > > However, I have problems when running bash from a DOS prompt > > window. Firstly, the `Alt Char' key does not work. This means that I'm > > not able to get access to the characters `$', `|', ``' and others > > which hampers the usefulness of bash considerably. I have tried to > > define some keybindings for these characters in ~/.inputrc, but for > > unknown reasons it does not work. > > Most of this didn't happen in 17.1, so it should be fixable. However, > 17.1 had trouble with deadkeys, which lost us ~, ^, and `, so > restoring the old behavior is not good enough. This is a known bug in > the DOS box itself under W95/Win32 (it's on Microsofts bug list), and > there's no workaround. We need a better terminal window altogether! > Ok, we have to look/wait for a port of xterm to Win95. Thanks for your reply. Steen -- \\\|/// \\ - - // ( @ @ ) +-----------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------------+ Steen Palm, CRI A/S, Bregnerxdvej 144, DK-3460 Birkerxd, Denmark Tel: +45 45 94 96 65, Fax: +45 45 94 96 45, E-mail: sup AT cri DOT dk +-------------------------------Oooo---------------------------------+ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".