Re: [Mingw-users] Using GNU Emacs with msys filepaths?

[Andy R. <min...@an...>]

Bill Janssen wrote:
> I'm working with msys on a Windows XP system.  Works pretty well for its
> intended purpose, but I use Emacs for editing, and can't figure out how
> to tell the Windows flavor of GNU Emacs that I'm using msys, and to
> respect the msys filepath conventions.  Anyone out there already done
> that?

I find they work well together anyway. It is true that Emacs doesn't 
understand the /c/ style path prefix but in practice this doesn't seem 
to cause me any problems. You need to start Emacs from MSYS so that it 
is running in an MSYS shell. I have the following in my ~/.profile:

export PATH=/c/emacs-23.1/bin/:$PATH
export SHELL=sh
export EDITOR=emacsclient

With this setup I can just run emacs from the shell:

$ emacs

With the standard Emacs configuration I can compile, debug, run a shell, 
etc. Filesystem access uses Windows paths, but these tools seem to 
handle the changeover correctly.

So what problem other than these are you trying to solve?

Andy