Re: [h-e-w] Unable to launch cygwin bash (M-x shell) in win 7 64 bit

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Mon, Jul 30 2012,Gary Oberbrunner wrote:

> Do M-x set-variable debug-on-error t and make it happen, then look at
> the stack trace.  It'll probably be obvious from there.  It's not
> directly related to your cygwin config, it's something about font-lock
> mode. I don't have a font-lock-defaults-alist, I have
> font-lock-defaults.  You may have an out-of-date elisp package
> somewhere.
>

Right you were, sir.  Commenting out various bits and bobs from my
.Emacs file, I tracked it down to this non standard package

;; This seems to be causing problems in 24.1,comment it out
;;(require 'font-menus)


Thanks for the help.

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 sivaram
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