Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32 cmd-shell starts fail

[Nguyen Anh Phu]

Hi Lennart,

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Lennart
Borgman<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Nguyen Anh Phu<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Lennart,
>> I'm sorry for late reply.
>
> No problem.
>
>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Lennart
>> Borgman<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Nguyen Anh Phu<address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've just installed Emacs-23-CvsP090630-EmacsW32-1.58 and everything
>>>> seems to work well except one thing that I cannot start cmd-shell,
>>>> error message say: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
>>>
>>> Hi Nguyen,
>>>
>>> How do you try to start the cmd shell? Do you mean that you do "M-x 
>>> cmd-shell"?
>>
>> Yes, I tried to do "M-x cmd-shell".
>>
>>>
>>> In that case please note that cmd-shell is not a command defined in
>>> Emacs. It is defined in w32shell.el that comes with EmacsW32.
>>>
>>> However it should work. It works for me. Can you turn on
>>> debug-on-error and see if you can get a back trace with more
>>> information?
>>
>> I'm not sure how to get back trace?
>> I enabled global debug-on-error (in .emacs), then issue command "M-x
>> cmd-shell", in mini buffer it just says "Wrong type argument: listp,
>> "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/""
>> "D:/apps/Emacs" is where I installed EmacsW32
>>
>> Clicking on that mini buffer, it show other text as below:
>>
>> Adding d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load-path
>> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
>> Wrong type argument: listp, "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/"
>
> I can't reproduce this. Could you please do
>
>    f1 v load-path RET
>
> to show the value of the variable load-path? Please tell me what the
> value you see in the help buffer is.

Here it is:
====================================
load-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
("d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/nxhtml/util/" "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/site-lisp" "D:/apps/Emacs/emacs/../site-lisp"
"D:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/calc"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/calendar"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/emulation" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/erc"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/eshell" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/gnus"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/international"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/language" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/mail"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/mh-e" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/net"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/nxml" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/org"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/play" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/textmodes" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/url"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/obsolete" "D:/apps/Emacs/emacs/leim")


Documentation:
*List of directories to search for files to load.
Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).
Initialized based on EMACSLOADPATH environment variable, if any,
otherwise to default specified by file `epaths.h' when Emacs was built.
====================================
>
>
>
>> Here is my .emacs file:
>>
>> ==========================================
>> (custom-set-variables
>>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>  '(debug-on-error t))
>> (custom-set-faces
>>  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>  )
>> ==========================================
>
> Thanks, nothing wrong there that I can see.
>
>
>
>>> Could you also try just "M-x shell"?
>>>
>>
>> "M-x shell" works fine, i got Windows's cmd shell after entering that 
>> command.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Nguyen Anh Phu
>>
>

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Nguyen Anh Phu