From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steen Ulrik Palm To: Peter Dalgaard BSA Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Bash Problems Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:26:00 -0000 Message-id: <337C272C.173C@cri.dk> References: <33796F53.4F7C@cri.dk> X-SW-Source: 1997-05/msg00324.html Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > > Steen Ulrik Palm writes: > > > > > I have downloaded and installed the 18b version of the gnu-win32 user > > tools under Windows 95. Bash has now been defined as the default shell > > in Emacs and bash runs smoothly within a *shell* buffer. > > Heyyy!! What a neat trick! Would you mind putting a small document > together on how you did that? (Which Emacs version, etc.) > I use NT Emacs ( http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html ) which seems to be a fairly nice port of GNU Emacs 19.34 to NT/Win95 (I have only used it for a couple of weeks so this is not an expert speaking). It is possible to copy/paste between Emacs and any other Win95 application (including the DOS box). In the Emacs window the copying/pasting is done solely by means of the mouse. To make bash your default shell in Emacs place the definition `set SHELL=\bash.exe' in autoexec.bat and add the below lines to your .emacs file: (setq win32-quote-process-args t) (setq shell-command-switch "-c") and you should be in business! (This is also described in ntemacs.html which is a pretty good README kind of file.) > > However, I have problems when running bash from a DOS prompt > > window. Firstly, the `Alt Char' key does not work. This means that I'm > > not able to get access to the characters `$', `|', ``' and others > > which hampers the usefulness of bash considerably. I have tried to > > define some keybindings for these characters in ~/.inputrc, but for > > unknown reasons it does not work. > > Most of this didn't happen in 17.1, so it should be fixable. However, > 17.1 had trouble with deadkeys, which lost us ~, ^, and `, so > restoring the old behavior is not good enough. This is a known bug in > the DOS box itself under W95/Win32 (it's on Microsofts bug list), and > there's no workaround. We need a better terminal window altogether! > Ok, we have to look/wait for a port of xterm to Win95. Thanks for your reply. Steen -- \\\|/// \\ - - // ( @ @ ) +-----------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------------+ Steen Palm, CRI A/S, Bregnerxdvej 144, DK-3460 Birkerxd, Denmark Tel: +45 45 94 96 65, Fax: +45 45 94 96 45, E-mail: sup@cri.dk +-------------------------------Oooo---------------------------------+ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".