Re: Problems with cygwin bash shell under NT Emacs

[Andy Moreton <andy dot moreton at artimi dot com>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:18:12 GMT, rolf wrote:

> René Berber writes:
> 
> 
> [snip]
>> Just for reference, with XEmacs opening a shell:
>>
>> sh-3.2$ echo $TERM
>> dumb
>> sh-3.2$ echo $TERMCAP
>> emacs:co#79:tc=unknown:
>> sh-3.2$ python
>> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43)
>> [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> 2+2
>> 4
>>>>>
>> sh-3.2$ echo $SHELL
>> /bin/bash
> 
> Changing the TERM/TERMCAP settings didn't help. Thanks for your reference.
> 
> Python just seems to be the only cygwin binary my bash can't handle.
> Thats driving me nuts....

I do run NTemacs with cygwin. I do so becuase for a long time the cyugwin 
emaxs was broken and/or horribly slow compared to the NTemacs port, and 
requires an X11 server to have a GUI.

Try running "python -i" to force interactive behaviour - this works for me.

    	AndyM


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