[h-e-w] Using Emacs w/ fc in bash

[David Starks-Browning]

On Wednesday 6 Nov 02, Sarir A Khamsi writes:
> [Don't know if this is the right place for this question...]
> 
> I am trying to use Emacs w/ fc under bash but it does not seem to be
> working, that is, I don't see any command in the emacs console (it's
> empty). Here's what I have:
> 
> - Win2k, SP2
> - Emacs 21.2.1
> - bash 2.05b.0(5)
> - in my .bashrc:
>   o FCEDIT="c:/usr/emacs/bin/emacs -nw -q"
>   o TERM=linux
> 
> Is this an Emacs or a bash setup problem? Does anyone have a
> solution?

I don't expect the Cygwin bash builtin command "fc" to understand the
windows emacs path "c:/usr/emacs/bin/emacs".

Try this in your .bashrc:

export FCEDIT="`cygpath c:/usr/emacs/bin/emacs` -nw -q"

If "emacs -nw" doesn't work well (e.g., in a remote login shell), try
the Cygwin port of Emacs that you can install with Cygwin's
setup.exe.

Regards,
David