Re: [h-e-w] Emacs Cygwin setup in Vista help

[John A Pershing Jr]

rpd wrote:
> Hi
>
> I guess this question has been asked before but I want to open cygwin bash
> shell in Emacs (Vista O/S).
>
>   
I'm probably missing something fundamental -- however, I have 
C:\cygwin\bin in my (Windoze) PATH, right after the various C:\WINDOWS 
directories, and I have the line:

   (setq explicit-shell-file-name "C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe")

in my .emacs file, and it just works.  I also have a file 
.emacs_bash.exe containing the single line:

   . .bash_profile

since the Emacs 'shell' command does not pass the --login option to the 
shell.

 -jp