Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <010801c2d1c5$e5b40d20$15fe86d9@webdev>
Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Win32 emacs, Cygwin emacs...and PATH
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:05:40 -0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106

---Begin forwarded message ---
From: "Nick Miller" <nmiller AT cs DOT oberlin DOT edu>
To: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: Why won't my files link?


> Hello, I have a quick question that I was hoping you might have time to
> address...
>
> So I have a copy of emacs for Win32 installed in "C:/".  I have my Windows
> environment variables (PATH) set up so that I can run emacs right from the
> Windows command prompt by typing "emacs".  What I am now wondering is how
> I can get this same functionality in Cywgin.  My Cywgin home directory is
> "c:/cygwin/home/owner/", and I want to be able to type "emacs" and have it
> run my Win32 emacs.  Right now when I type emacs in Cygwin I get a version
> of it hat came with Cygwin.  Also, on Linux I can do "emacs&" to run emacs
> in the background and keep my shell visible and free.  Whenever I do
> "emacs&" on Cygwin tho, nothing happens.  Any ideas?  Allow me to thank
> you ahead of time for your assistance!
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
---End forwarded message ---



--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/