cygwin – Diary of an Emacs tragic

Launch emacs from cygwin

Jason — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:12:25 +0000

I have written about about using emacs in cygwin and how to launch emacs from cygwin, but I had some problems with the batch file approach in that emacs’ path differ from bash’s. Then ack fails to work from within emacs which makes me sad. After googling around a bit, I saw a few suggestion that trie to fix the path in emacs, but I think a better approach is to launch emacs from within bash so it…

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Launching cygwin emacs from native win32 programs

Jason — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:33:39 +0000

My business’s accounting program, which I’ll call Canopus, has issues. One of which is that it assumes wordpad.exe will be in c:windows. As far as I know, Microsoft moved wordpad.exe’s default location away from c:windows about 20 years ago. Canopus live in hope that it will be there so installing Canopus always requires one to copy wordpad.exe to c:windows The other problem with Canopus is that…

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installing emacs in cygwin

Jason — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:45:00 +0000

Update: See my other post, launching emacs from cygwin There are a few tricks to installing emacs in cygwin. Here’s what I do. First, install cygwin. Then, install the very nice tool apt-cyg which makes package management much easier in cygwin. Then to save yourself lots of agony of trying to work out which cygwin packages you need to install to be able to compile emacs, here is the list…

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