Emacs + Cygwin setup under windows !

I just download开发者_Python百科ed Emacs and Cygwin for Windows(Vista in my case). Have no idea how to set them up.

Any help would be appreciated ! Thanks !

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

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
    ))

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

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.

You can find instructions here.

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.