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Re: Executing shell command to run bash from within emacs
- To: csims at templartrading dot com
- Subject: Re: Executing shell command to run bash from within emacs
- From: Tak Ota <Takaaki dot Ota at am dot sony dot com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 20:35:28 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: Sony Electronics Inc.
- References: <001b01c1031b$257ddb50$09fea8c0@3hi25.flashcom.com>
This is what I do in my .emacs for NT emacs. (in fact this works for
all cygwin, Linux and bare NT environment)
-Tak
;;
;; shell-mode
;;
(or (fboundp 'executable-find)
(defun executable-find (command)
"Search for COMMAND in exec-path and return the absolute file name.
Return nil if COMMAND is not found anywhere in `exec-path'."
(catch 'found
(let ((path-list exec-path))
(while path-list
(let ((full-path (expand-file-name command (car path-list)))
(executable-binary-suffixes
(if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
'(".exe" ".com" ".bat" ".cmd" ".btm")
'(""))))
(while executable-binary-suffixes
(if (file-executable-p (concat full-path (car executable-binary-suffixes)))
(throw 'found full-path))
(setq executable-binary-suffixes (cdr executable-binary-suffixes))))
(setq path-list (cdr path-list)))))))
(setq explicit-shell-file-name
(let ((preferred-shells '("bash" "sh" "cmdproxy")))
(catch 'found
(while preferred-shells
(let* ((shell (executable-find (car preferred-shells)))
file-name-handler)
(and shell
(setq file-name-handler (find-file-name-handler shell t))
(setq shell (funcall file-name-handler 'identity shell)))
(if shell (throw 'found shell)))
(setq preferred-shells (cdr preferred-shells))))))
(setenv "SHELL" explicit-shell-file-name)
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:19:26 -0500, "Clark Sims" <csims@templartrading.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I really like to record my bash sessions (both input and output), from
> within emacs. It is easy to do on Linux: alt-x shell, or in emacs notation
> m-X shell.
> Does anybody know now to do this emacs for NT and cygnus bash?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Clark
>
>
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