EmacsW32 cmd-shell starts fail

[Nguyen Anh Phu]

Hi all,

I've just installed Emacs-23-CvsP090630-EmacsW32-1.58 and everything
seems to work well except one thing that I cannot start cmd-shell,
error message say: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil

How do I setup emacs to make cmd-shell work?

Many thanks,

--
Nguyen Anh Phu

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phuna24@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just installed Emacs-23-CvsP090630-EmacsW32-1.58 and everything
> seems to work well except one thing that I cannot start cmd-shell,
> error message say: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil

Hi Nguyen,

How do you try to start the cmd shell? Do you mean that you do "M-x cmd-shell"?

In that case please note that cmd-shell is not a command defined in
Emacs. It is defined in w32shell.el that comes with EmacsW32.

However it should work. It works for me. Can you turn on
debug-on-error and see if you can get a back trace with more
information?

Could you also try just "M-x shell"?

[Nguyen Anh Phu]

Hi Lennart,
I'm sorry for late reply.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Lennart
Borgman<lennart.borgman@...> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phuna24@...> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just installed Emacs-23-CvsP090630-EmacsW32-1.58 and everything
>> seems to work well except one thing that I cannot start cmd-shell,
>> error message say: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
>
> Hi Nguyen,
>
> How do you try to start the cmd shell? Do you mean that you do "M-x cmd-shell"?

Yes, I tried to do "M-x cmd-shell".

>
> In that case please note that cmd-shell is not a command defined in
> Emacs. It is defined in w32shell.el that comes with EmacsW32.
>
> However it should work. It works for me. Can you turn on
> debug-on-error and see if you can get a back trace with more
> information?

I'm not sure how to get back trace?
I enabled global debug-on-error (in .emacs), then issue command "M-x
cmd-shell", in mini buffer it just says "Wrong type argument: listp,
"d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/""
"D:/apps/Emacs" is where I installed EmacsW32

Clicking on that mini buffer, it show other text as below:

Adding d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load-path
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Wrong type argument: listp, "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/"

Here is my .emacs file:

==========================================
(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(debug-on-error t))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )
==========================================

>
> Could you also try just "M-x shell"?
>

"M-x shell" works fine, i got Windows's cmd shell after entering that command.

Thanks,

--
Nguyen Anh Phu

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phuna24@...> wrote:
> Hi Lennart,
> I'm sorry for late reply.

No problem.

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Lennart
> Borgman<lennart.borgman@...> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phuna24@...> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've just installed Emacs-23-CvsP090630-EmacsW32-1.58 and everything
>>> seems to work well except one thing that I cannot start cmd-shell,
>>> error message say: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
>>
>> Hi Nguyen,
>>
>> How do you try to start the cmd shell? Do you mean that you do "M-x cmd-shell"?
>
> Yes, I tried to do "M-x cmd-shell".
>
>>
>> In that case please note that cmd-shell is not a command defined in
>> Emacs. It is defined in w32shell.el that comes with EmacsW32.
>>
>> However it should work. It works for me. Can you turn on
>> debug-on-error and see if you can get a back trace with more
>> information?
>
> I'm not sure how to get back trace?
> I enabled global debug-on-error (in .emacs), then issue command "M-x
> cmd-shell", in mini buffer it just says "Wrong type argument: listp,
> "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/""
> "D:/apps/Emacs" is where I installed EmacsW32
>
> Clicking on that mini buffer, it show other text as below:
>
> Adding d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load-path
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> Wrong type argument: listp, "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/"

I can't reproduce this. Could you please do

    f1 v load-path RET

to show the value of the variable load-path? Please tell me what the
value you see in the help buffer is.

> Here is my .emacs file:
>
> ==========================================
> (custom-set-variables
>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  '(debug-on-error t))
> (custom-set-faces
>  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  )
> ==========================================

Thanks, nothing wrong there that I can see.

>> Could you also try just "M-x shell"?
>>
>
> "M-x shell" works fine, i got Windows's cmd shell after entering that command.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Nguyen Anh Phu
>

[Nguyen Anh Phu]

Hi Lennart,

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Lennart
Borgman<lennart.borgman@...> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phuna24@...> wrote:
>> Hi Lennart,
>> I'm sorry for late reply.
>
> No problem.
>
>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Lennart
>> Borgman<lennart.borgman@...> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phuna24@...> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've just installed Emacs-23-CvsP090630-EmacsW32-1.58 and everything
>>>> seems to work well except one thing that I cannot start cmd-shell,
>>>> error message say: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
>>>
>>> Hi Nguyen,
>>>
>>> How do you try to start the cmd shell? Do you mean that you do "M-x cmd-shell"?
>>
>> Yes, I tried to do "M-x cmd-shell".
>>
>>>
>>> In that case please note that cmd-shell is not a command defined in
>>> Emacs. It is defined in w32shell.el that comes with EmacsW32.
>>>
>>> However it should work. It works for me. Can you turn on
>>> debug-on-error and see if you can get a back trace with more
>>> information?
>>
>> I'm not sure how to get back trace?
>> I enabled global debug-on-error (in .emacs), then issue command "M-x
>> cmd-shell", in mini buffer it just says "Wrong type argument: listp,
>> "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/""
>> "D:/apps/Emacs" is where I installed EmacsW32
>>
>> Clicking on that mini buffer, it show other text as below:
>>
>> Adding d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load-path
>> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
>> Wrong type argument: listp, "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/"
>
> I can't reproduce this. Could you please do
>
>    f1 v load-path RET
>
> to show the value of the variable load-path? Please tell me what the
> value you see in the help buffer is.

Here it is:
====================================
load-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
("d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/nxhtml/util/" "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/site-lisp" "D:/apps/Emacs/emacs/../site-lisp"
"D:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/calc"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/calendar"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/emulation" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/erc"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/eshell" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/gnus"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/international"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/language" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/mail"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/mh-e" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/net"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/nxml" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/org"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/play" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/textmodes" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/url"
"d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/obsolete" "D:/apps/Emacs/emacs/leim")


Documentation:
*List of directories to search for files to load.
Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).
Initialized based on EMACSLOADPATH environment variable, if any,
otherwise to default specified by file `epaths.h' when Emacs was built.
====================================

>
>
>
>> Here is my .emacs file:
>>
>> ==========================================
>> (custom-set-variables
>>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>  '(debug-on-error t))
>> (custom-set-faces
>>  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>  )
>> ==========================================
>
> Thanks, nothing wrong there that I can see.
>
>
>
>>> Could you also try just "M-x shell"?
>>>
>>
>> "M-x shell" works fine, i got Windows's cmd shell after entering that command.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Nguyen Anh Phu
>>
>

--
Nguyen Anh Phu

[Nguyen Anh Phu]

Hi Lennart,

Did you find out the problem? Could you give me some directions deal
with this one?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phuna24@...> wrote:

> Hi Lennart,
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Lennart
> Borgman<lennart.borgman@...> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phuna24@...> wrote:
>>> Hi Lennart,
>>> I'm sorry for late reply.
>>
>> No problem.
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Lennart
>>> Borgman<lennart.borgman@...> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Nguyen Anh Phu<phuna24@...> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've just installed Emacs-23-CvsP090630-EmacsW32-1.58 and everything
>>>>> seems to work well except one thing that I cannot start cmd-shell,
>>>>> error message say: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
>>>>
>>>> Hi Nguyen,
>>>>
>>>> How do you try to start the cmd shell? Do you mean that you do "M-x cmd-shell"?
>>>
>>> Yes, I tried to do "M-x cmd-shell".
>>>
>>>>
>>>> In that case please note that cmd-shell is not a command defined in
>>>> Emacs. It is defined in w32shell.el that comes with EmacsW32.
>>>>
>>>> However it should work. It works for me. Can you turn on
>>>> debug-on-error and see if you can get a back trace with more
>>>> information?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to get back trace?
>>> I enabled global debug-on-error (in .emacs), then issue command "M-x
>>> cmd-shell", in mini buffer it just says "Wrong type argument: listp,
>>> "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/""
>>> "D:/apps/Emacs" is where I installed EmacsW32
>>>
>>> Clicking on that mini buffer, it show other text as below:
>>>
>>> Adding d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load-path
>>> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
>>> Wrong type argument: listp, "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin/"
>>
>> I can't reproduce this. Could you please do
>>
>>    f1 v load-path RET
>>
>> to show the value of the variable load-path? Please tell me what the
>> value you see in the help buffer is.
>
> Here it is:
> ====================================
> load-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is
> ("d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/nxhtml/util/" "d:/apps/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/site-lisp" "D:/apps/Emacs/emacs/../site-lisp"
> "D:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/calc"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/calendar"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/emulation" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/erc"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/eshell" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/gnus"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/international"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/language" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/mail"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/mh-e" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/net"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/nxml" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/org"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/play" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/textmodes" "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/url"
> "d:/apps/Emacs/emacs/lisp/obsolete" "D:/apps/Emacs/emacs/leim")
>
>
> Documentation:
> *List of directories to search for files to load.
> Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).
> Initialized based on EMACSLOADPATH environment variable, if any,
> otherwise to default specified by file `epaths.h' when Emacs was built.
> ====================================
>>
>>
>>
>>> Here is my .emacs file:
>>>
>>> ==========================================
>>> (custom-set-variables
>>>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>>>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>>  '(debug-on-error t))
>>> (custom-set-faces
>>>  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>>>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>>  )
>>> ==========================================
>>
>> Thanks, nothing wrong there that I can see.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Could you also try just "M-x shell"?
>>>>
>>>
>>> "M-x shell" works fine, i got Windows's cmd shell after entering that command.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nguyen Anh Phu
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Nguyen Anh Phu
>

--
Nguyen Anh Phu