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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:56:14 -0500
To: Daniel Barclay <Daniel DOT Barclay AT digitalfocus DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: how to set CYGWIN variable for Emacs
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At 02:44 PM 1/12/2001, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> > 
> > At 11:12 AM 1/12/2001, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > >What's the recommended way to set the CYGWIN environment variable
> > >when running in an NTEmacs shell buffer?
> > >
> > >The CygWin FAQ gives instructions at
> > >http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC54:
> > >
>...
> > >         (setq shell-file-name "bash")
> > >         (setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name)
> > >         (setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name)
> > >         ;;
>...
> > >However, this seems to run bash directly, bypassing the cygwin.bat
> > >file.
> > >
> > >Should Emacs run cygwin.bat directly?  Should the CYGWIN variable be
> > >set in some place other than cygwin.bat (e.g., in Emacs or in the
> > >NT environment) so that it gets set even if cygwin.bat isn't run?
> > 
> > Some of the settings in CYGWIN are read by cygwin1.dll only at DLL
> > initialization time.  As a result, it is generally recommended that you
> > set CYGWIN *before* any Cygwin-dependent application runs (i.e. so that
> > the DLL is not loaded and the changes take affect when the next app is
> > run).  This is really the only rule about how and where CYGWIN should be
> > set.  Feel free to set it in your control panel (on NT/W2K) or autoexec.bat
> > (on Win 9x's) if you want.
>
>Actually, part of what I was asking was this:  Should Emacs should 
>call cygwin.bat (instead of calling bash directly)?
>
>Daniel



It doesn't have to if you make sure that everything that cygwin.bat did
is done before you run Emacs and/or you know what you're doing.  YMMV.



Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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