Emacs + Cygwin setup under windows !

Question

I just downloaded Emacs and Cygwin for Windows(Vista in my case). Have no idea how to set them up.

Any help would be appreciated ! Thanks !

Answer 1

Step 1: Install libraries

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/cygwin-mount.el

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/setup-cygwin.el

Step 2: Install cygwin to C:\cygwin (This requirement is hardcoded in setup-cygwin.el, so just do it unless you are willing to modify setup-cygwin.el).

Step 3: Add following code into your .emacs or .emacs.d/init.el . Please note the variable cygwin-mount-cygwin-bin-directory is not set by default in cygwin-mount.el, I suggest using hard coded path (I mean "c:/cygwin/bin" actually) since the cygwin install path is already hardcoded by setup-cygwin.el.

(setq *win32* (eq system-type 'windows-nt) )
;; win32 auto configuration, assuming that cygwin is installed at "c:/cygwin"
(if *win32*
(progn
    (setq cygwin-mount-cygwin-bin-directory "c:/cygwin/bin")
    (require 'setup-cygwin)
    ;(setenv "HOME" "c:/cygwin/home/someuser") ;; better to set HOME env in GUI
    ))

Answer 2

I use these libraries, in this order:

(require 'cygwin-mount)
(require 'setup-cygwin)

They are both available on EmacsWiki:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/cygwin-mount.el

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/setup-cygwin.el

Answer 3

Maybe try posting your question on http://superuser.com

But:

• Installing Emacs on Windows 95/98/2K/NT/ME/XP/Vista/Windows 7

• Quick Start Guide for those more experienced with Windows

Answer 4

您可以在此处找到说明。

Answer 5

Use cygwin-mount.el to integrate Cygwin with Emacs:

• http://www.khngai.com/emacs/cygwin.php

You might also want to replace the DOS Shell with the Cygwin bash, that's also covered.

Answer 6

There're several way to integrate emacs with cygwin as follows:

1. emacs-nox under cygwin. Not attractive!
2. emacs-X11 under cygwin. An X server is needed like XMing or Cygwin/X. A bit slow and heavy.
3. emacs-w32 under cygwin.
4. emacs under windows. You need some configuration to make emacs recognize the cygwin environment. Difficult for beginners.

I'd recommend using emacs-w32 with cygwin, which uses native Windows GUI so that you don't have to start an xserver just to run emacs and you don't need to write/download any tricky code to make emacs aware of cygwin env as other answers do.

Just install emacs-w32 and run it from mintty and here you go. FYI, if you want to start emacs "independently", write a .bat file with D:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe --login -i -c /usr/bin/emacs-w32.exe inside or, as I do, write a .ahk script to start emacs with hotkey F12 .