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native emacs and manual page
- From: peter360 <peter360 at fastmail dot us>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:07:54 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: native emacs and manual page
I run a native windows build of gnu emacs (downloaded binary distribution
from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/) on my vista box. I can
launch emacs either from a windows terminal (cmd.exe), or from a cygwin bash
shell. I run native emacs instead of cygwin emacs so that I can get the
emacs gui without installing cygwin/X (nothing wrong with cygwin/X, I am
just a minimalist type).
Everything works fine with this set up except one: I cannot view manual
pages in emacs. Instead of viewing man pages in cygwin terminal, I like to
do it in emacs using "M-x man". But it wouldn't work with my setup, which
is expected because the native emacs build probably doesn't know about
cygwin. Here is what I observe:
1 If I start emacs from cmd.exe, then hit say, M-x man ls, I get an error
message in the minibuffer saying "error in process sentinel: *Man ls*:
process exited abnormally with code 255
2 If I start emacs from cygwin bash shell, I get a popup window stating
"c:\Program Files\GNU\emacs-22.3\bin\cmdproxy.exe the NTVDM CPU has
encoutered an illegal instruction. ... Choose 'Close' to terminate the
application"
I am hoping someone knowledgeable on this list could give me a hint as how
to resolve either or both of the problems? Perhaps there is some magic
configuration that makes emacs invoke the correct (cygwin) command?
Thanks.
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