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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 20:35:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20010702.203528.42410799.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>
To: csims AT templartrading DOT com
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Executing shell command to run bash from within emacs
From: Tak Ota <Takaaki DOT Ota AT am DOT sony DOT com>
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This is what I do in my .emacs for NT emacs.  (in fact this works for
all cygwin, Linux and bare NT environment)

-Tak

;;
;; shell-mode
;;
(or (fboundp 'executable-find)
    (defun executable-find (command)
      "Search for COMMAND in exec-path and return the absolute file name.
Return nil if COMMAND is not found anywhere in `exec-path'."
      (catch 'found
	(let ((path-list exec-path))
	  (while path-list
	    (let ((full-path (expand-file-name command (car path-list)))
		  (executable-binary-suffixes
		   (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
		       '(".exe" ".com" ".bat" ".cmd" ".btm")
		     '(""))))
	      (while executable-binary-suffixes
		(if (file-executable-p (concat full-path (car executable-binary-suffixes)))
		    (throw 'found full-path))
		(setq executable-binary-suffixes (cdr executable-binary-suffixes))))
	    (setq path-list (cdr path-list)))))))

(setq explicit-shell-file-name
      (let ((preferred-shells '("bash" "sh" "cmdproxy")))
	(catch 'found
	  (while preferred-shells
	    (let* ((shell (executable-find (car preferred-shells)))
		   file-name-handler)
	      (and shell
		   (setq file-name-handler (find-file-name-handler shell t))
		   (setq shell (funcall file-name-handler 'identity shell)))
	      (if shell (throw 'found shell)))
	    (setq preferred-shells (cdr preferred-shells))))))

(setenv "SHELL" explicit-shell-file-name)


On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:19:26 -0500, "Clark Sims" <csims AT templartrading DOT com> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I really like to record my bash sessions (both input and output), from
> within emacs. It is easy to do on Linux:  alt-x shell, or in emacs notation
> m-X shell.
> Does anybody know now to do this emacs for NT and cygnus bash?
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> 
> Clark
> 
> 
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