X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,WHOIS_MYPRIVREG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <21228121.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:07:54 -0800 (PST) From: peter360 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: native emacs and manual page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I run a native windows build of gnu emacs (downloaded binary distribution from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/) on my vista box. I can launch emacs either from a windows terminal (cmd.exe), or from a cygwin bash shell. I run native emacs instead of cygwin emacs so that I can get the emacs gui without installing cygwin/X (nothing wrong with cygwin/X, I am just a minimalist type). Everything works fine with this set up except one: I cannot view manual pages in emacs. Instead of viewing man pages in cygwin terminal, I like to do it in emacs using "M-x man". But it wouldn't work with my setup, which is expected because the native emacs build probably doesn't know about cygwin. Here is what I observe: 1 If I start emacs from cmd.exe, then hit say, M-x man ls, I get an error message in the minibuffer saying "error in process sentinel: *Man ls*: process exited abnormally with code 255 2 If I start emacs from cygwin bash shell, I get a popup window stating "c:\Program Files\GNU\emacs-22.3\bin\cmdproxy.exe the NTVDM CPU has encoutered an illegal instruction. ... Choose 'Close' to terminate the application" I am hoping someone knowledgeable on this list could give me a hint as how to resolve either or both of the problems? Perhaps there is some magic configuration that makes emacs invoke the correct (cygwin) command? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/native-emacs-and-manual-page-tp21228121p21228121.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/