Problems running MSYS Shell in emacsw32

[Dirk80]

Hello,

I don't get the msys shell running in emacsw32.

When I start the MSYS-Shell with Tools->W32 Shells->MSYS Shell, I get the following error message:
Wrong type argument: listp, "C:\\msys\\bin"

My .emacs file looks as follows:
(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.

 '(w32shell-msys-bin "C:\\msys\\bin")

 '(w32shell-shell (quote msys)))

(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.

 )



What am I doing wrong?

Thank you very much for your help
Dirk

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Dirk80<dirk@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I don't get the msys shell running in emacsw32.
>
> When I start the MSYS-Shell with Tools->W32 Shells->MSYS Shell, I get the
> following error message:
> Wrong type argument: listp, "C:\\msys\\bin"

Quite strange, there was just another similar report concerning
cmd-shell instead of msys-shell. I can't reproduce it though.

Could you please tell me the value of load-path and exec-path? Do

   f1 v load-path
   f1 v exex-path

and also

   M-: (getenv "PATH")

> My .emacs file looks as follows:
> (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.
>
>  '(w32shell-msys-bin "C:\\msys\\bin")
>
>  '(w32shell-shell (quote msys)))
>
> (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.
>
>  )
>
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thank you very much for your help
> Dirk
>
>
>
> --
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>
>
>
>

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Lennart
Borgman<lennart.borgman@...> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Dirk80<dirk@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I don't get the msys shell running in emacsw32.
>>
>> When I start the MSYS-Shell with Tools->W32 Shells->MSYS Shell, I get the
>> following error message:
>> Wrong type argument: listp, "C:\\msys\\bin"
>
> Quite strange, there was just another similar report concerning
> cmd-shell instead of msys-shell. I can't reproduce it though.
>
> Could you please tell me the value of load-path and exec-path? Do
>
>   f1 v load-path
>   f1 v exex-path

Should be exec-path.

> and also
>
>   M-: (getenv "PATH")
>
>
>
>> My .emacs file looks as follows:
>> (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.
>>
>>  '(w32shell-msys-bin "C:\\msys\\bin")
>>
>>  '(w32shell-shell (quote msys)))
>>
>> (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.
>>
>>  )
>>
>>
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help
>> Dirk
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problems-running-MSYS-Shell-in-emacsw32-tp24836974p24836974.html
>> Sent from the Emacs - Windows - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

[Jason Rumney-4]

Dirk80 wrote:

> My .emacs file looks as follows:
> (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.
>
>  '(w32shell-msys-bin "C:\\msys\\bin")
>  

c:\msys\bin would usually be a directory. The shell is normally
something like c:\msys\bin\sh.exe

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Jason Rumney<jasonr@...> wrote:

> Dirk80 wrote:
>>
>> My .emacs file looks as follows:
>> (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.
>>
>>  '(w32shell-msys-bin "C:\\msys\\bin")
>>
>
> c:\msys\bin would usually be a directory. The shell is normally something
> like c:\msys\bin\sh.exe

... but the value above should be a directory. In my case I have
"C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin".

Dirk, could you please tell us how you entered this value too? (It
could be filled in automatically by EmacsW32 if you ask it to do so in
the Customize EmacsW32 entry in the Options menu.)

[Dirk80]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Jason Rumney<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Dirk80 wrote:
>>
>> My .emacs file looks as follows:
>> (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.
>>
>>  '(w32shell-msys-bin "C:\\msys\\bin")
>>
>
> c:\msys\bin would usually be a directory. The shell is normally something
> like c:\msys\bin\sh.exe

... but the value above should be a directory. In my case I have
"C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin".

Dirk, could you please tell us how you entered this value too? (It
could be filled in automatically by EmacsW32 if you ask it to do so in
the Customize EmacsW32 entry in the Options menu.)

Hi,

thanks for your fast help.

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

exec-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
("c:/Program Files/EmacsW32/emacs/bin/" "c:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/miktex/bin" "C:/Program Files/GnuWin32/bin" " C:/Program Files/emacs/bin" "C:/Lint" "C:/Perl/site/bin" "C:/Perl/bin" "C:/PROGRA~1/Serena/vm/win32/bin" "C:/PROGRA~1/Serena/vm/common/bin/win32" "C:/WINDOWS/system32" "C:/WINDOWS" "C:/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem" "C:/Program Files/ATI Technologies/ATI.ACE/Core-Static" "C:/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/DLLShared" "C:/Program Files/Development Tools/Notepad2" "C:/GTK/bin" "C:/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0" "c:/Program Files/EmacsW32/emacs/bin")

(getenv "PATH")
"c:\\Program Files\\EmacsW32\\emacs\\bin\\;C:\\Program Files\\MiKTeX 2.7\\miktex\\bin;C:\\Program Files\\GnuWin32\\bin; C:\\Program Files\\emacs\\bin;C:\\Lint;C:\\Perl\\site\\bin;C:\\Perl\\bin;C:\\PROGRA~1\\Serena\\vm\\win32\\bin;C:\\PROGRA~1\\Serena\\vm\\common\\bin\\win32;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Program Files\\ATI Technologies\\ATI.ACE\\Core-Static;C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Roxio Shared\\DLLShared;C:\\Program Files\\Development Tools\\Notepad2;C:\\GTK\\bin;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0"


How did I fill it out?
I tried three different ways:

1.) Options -> Customize EmacsW32 -> Current MSYS Path -> Customize ...
Then I entered: C:\msys\bin

2.) Options -> Customize EmacsW32 -> Current MSYS Path -> Find!

3.) directly in .emacs as you have seen in my first post

But all three ways lead to the same error.

I now see that msys is not in the PATH and not in the load-path and not in the exec-path.

Greetings,
Dirk