Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

[Ken Brown]

On 6/17/2009 3:17 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> +       emacs   exec    "bash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs"
>>         notepad exec    notepad
>>         xload   exec    "xload -display %display%"  # Comment
>>  }
>>
>> The most important part of this is changing the way emacs is called; 
>> the original version didn't work at all for me (i.e., emacs didn't 
>> start). This might be related to the fact that I've installed the 
>> emacs-23 packages, which use the alternatives system:
>>
>> /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs
>> /etc/alternatives/emacs -> /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe
> 
> The command lines for menu items are just supplied to execl('/bin/sh -c 
> ...') after a fork, so it should have no problem following symlinks, and 
> a bare "emacs" works for me (I tested 23.0.92 under Cygwin 1.7)

It turns out that I was using a modified startxwin.bat that didn't set 
up the path correctly.  So now it works for me too.  Nevertheless, I 
prefer "bash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs" so that the bash initialization files 
are processed before emacs starts.  For various reasons, I want the 
environment inside emacs to be the same as the usual bash environment. 
I suspect that most emacs users would want that, but I don't really know.

Ken

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