RE: Running a SFU POSIX shell on Emacs for Windows

[andrew . maguire]

Looking at shell.el it looks like you need to do the following:

(setq explicit-shell-file-name "C:\\WINNT\\System32\\posix.exe")
(setq explicit-posix.exe-args '("/u" "/c" "/bin/csh" "-l"))

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neves-Graca, Sancho [mailto:sancho.neves-graca@sap.com]
> Sent: 15 October 2003 10:45
> To: 'help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'
> Subject: Running a SFU POSIX shell on Emacs for Windows
> 
> 
> I use Services for Unix (SFU) from Microsoft and would like 
> to access its C shell from Emacs shell mode. This does not 
> currently seem possible with the environment variable SHELL 
> or the line (setq explicit-shell-file-name 
> "C:\WINNT\System32\posix.exe /u /c /bin/csh -l") in the 
> configuration file. The shell is started by calling posix.exe with
> 
>       C:\WINNT\System32\posix.exe /u /c /bin/csh -l
> 
> It seems that Emacs does not pass the arguments /u /c 
> /bin/csh -l to the executable posix.exe and therefore the 
> shell is not started. Moving to Cygwin is not an option for 
> many users of SFU. Could this missing functionality be 
> considered by the Emacs development team?