Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows

[Richard M. Heiberger]

Thanks for noting the ":" in "c:".  I feel a bit foolish about not seeing that.

On the setting of the PATH.  When you start cygwin from the cygwin.bat it sets
the path as part of the "--login".

The example I posted yesterday was much abbreviated.  I started emacs with
"-q --no-site-file"
and then gave the minimum emacs commands to make "M-x shell" start bash.
My goal was limited to finding the default coding-system, which is

Coding systems for process I/O:
  encoding input to the process: - -- undecided-unix

  decoding output from the process: - -- undecided-dos

This is the default coding system for both the default cmdproxy.exe and for bash
as set by the three lines I posted.
   (setenv "COMSPEC" "/cygwin/bin/bash.exe")
   (setenv "SHELL" "/cygwin/bin/bash.exe")
   (setq shell-file-name "/cygwin/bin/bash.exe")

The normal way of starting cygwin bash inside emacs would be first to set the 
emacs PATH
inside site-start.el to include the cygwin directories.