Shell commands within emacs - broken

Paul Dumais paul@unstate.ca
Wed Jan 18 20:00:00 GMT 2012


Oh, nevermind. I had set the windows environment variable to
c:/cygwin/bin/sh back when I was trying to get cygwin to work with a
native version of emacs. I removed that and I'm back to normal
operation.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Paul Dumais <paul@unstate.ca> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to use emacs within cygwin and I get the following error
> whenever I try to launch a bash command:
>
> searching for program: no such file or directory, c:/cygwin/bin/sh
>
> I have an almost brand new 64-bit Windows 7 installation. I don't have
> this problem on other new installations. The only thing I did
> differently, if I recall correctly, is that I used to have a native
> emacs version installed (ver 24).
>
> bash and sh work fine within cygwin itself. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul

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