Re: [h-e-w] emacs & shell

[Galen Boyer]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed emacs 21.2.1 on xp and cgywin and am trying to get the
> shell feature in emacs to work.  I create a small bash file (echo HI)
> and try to execute it from within emacs without success. Also when I
> M-x shell it brings me to a prompt. I then type 'ls" and get:
> c:\TEMP>ls ls 'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external
> command, operable program or batch file.

Set the PATH environmental variable to include the cygwin/bin.  At least
thats what I do, but I remember seeing some thread where they talked
about why thats bad.  I don't do much more than use its utilities and
this has worked fine for me.