[PRL] emacs/cygwin question
Mitchell Wand
wand at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Jun 6 09:08:11 EDT 2008
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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