Using cygwin bash shell with NT Emacs, path is not setup perfectly

Ken Brown kbrown@math.cornell.edu
Sun Aug 26 16:43:00 GMT 2007


On 8/25/2007 8:30 PM, Eric Lilja wrote:
> Ok, it seems that /etc/profile is not read when I start cygwin bash 
> using M-x shell and I think that may be a problem.

I can't find the earlier message(s) in this thread, so I'm not sure of 
the context.  But you might be able to solve your problem by customizing 
the emacs variable explicit-bash-args to include "-l" or "--login".

Ken


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