On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, David Rothenberger wrote: > Edwin Goei wrote: > > > I would like to be able to have a Windows shortcut that will do the > > equivalent of the following: 1) run cygwin.bat 2) execute "xemacs &" > > in the cygwin bash window 3) exit the cygwin bash window 4) leaving > > xemacs running. > > > > I would like to start xemacs in this way so I can have my default bash > > enviroment initialized in xemacs. Any ideas on to do this? > > > I use the following. > > % cat xemacs.bat > @start /min c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c 'cygstart /usr/local/bin/xemacs' > > Of course, you'll need to adjust the paths to match your environment. > Once you make the batch file, you can make a shortcut to it in the usual > way. > > Dave
FWIW, you can dispense with the batch file, and simply make a shortcut to "C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c 'cygstart /usr/bin/xemacs'"[*]. You can then set the shortcut to start minimized. Igor [*] I put /usr/bin/xemacs here, since xemacs is now a Cygwin package. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/