[PRL] emacs/cygwin question

Mitchell Wand wand at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Jun 6 10:13:22 EDT 2008


Bah!  That's it, thanks!  --Mitch

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Vasileios Koutavas <vkoutav at ccs.neu.edu>
wrote:

> Do you have a SHELL environment variable set? If so, is it pointing to the
> right place?
>
> --Vassilis
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Mitchell Wand wrote:
>
>  Hi guys-- I'm running emacs-22.1 on my windows boxes.  I have three
>> machines-- wand-dell326, wand-dell-home, and my Toshiba laptop.
>>
>> On two of these three machines, I can do M-x grep, etc., just fine.
>>
>> On the other, I get the message:
>>
>> start-process-shell-command: Spawning child process: invalid argument
>>
>> This is not a grep issue.  I get the same thing trying to run latex from
>> auctex.
>> Not a .emacs issue:  I get the same behavior with emacs -q.
>>
>> According to cygwin, which grep is /usr/bin/grep.
>>
>> My PATH environment, according to emacs is:
>>
>> (getenv "PATH")
>> "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\cygwin\\bin;C:\\Program
>> Files\\QuickTime\\QTSystem\\;C:\\cygwin\\usr\\bin;"
>>
>> OTOH, I just did the same thing on a working machine and discovered that
>> /usr/bin is not in its (getenv "PATH").
>>
>> Oh yes, one other thing:  if I go to start tcsh from my cygwin bash
>> window, I get:
>>
>> if: Expression Syntax.
>>
>> I recall that this was something bogus in one of my dotfiles.  But I don't
>> even have a .tcshrc, so far as I know.  I mention this only insofar as it
>> might be related.
>>
>> Do you guys have any idea what might be causing this, other than my using
>> Windows instead of a Mac?
>>
>> --Mitch
>>
>>
>>
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