Re: [h-e-w] Problems running MSYS Shell in emacsw32

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Dirk80<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I don't get the msys shell running in emacsw32.
>
> When I start the MSYS-Shell with Tools->W32 Shells->MSYS Shell, I get the
> following error message:
> Wrong type argument: listp, "C:\\msys\\bin"

Quite strange, there was just another similar report concerning
cmd-shell instead of msys-shell. I can't reproduce it though.

Could you please tell me the value of load-path and exec-path? Do

   f1 v load-path
   f1 v exex-path

and also

   M-: (getenv "PATH")



> My .emacs file looks as follows:
> (custom-set-variables
>
>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>
>  '(w32shell-msys-bin "C:\\msys\\bin")
>
>  '(w32shell-shell (quote msys)))
>
> (custom-set-faces
>
>  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>
>  )
>
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thank you very much for your help
> Dirk
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