Terminal in Emacs in Windows - Error message: “Spawning child process; invalid argument”

Question

I\'m trying to start a cmd terminal in Emacs 23.2 (latest version) in Windows.

According to the Manual, I can enter in terminal mode (starting a new bu

Answer 1

I've been using this in my .bash_profile, you should be able to set this to whatever you need. Note - when I do this I need to re source ~/.bash_profile to get all of my aliases and stuff, which I still haven't figured out.

When I run Emacs by "clicking" a file to start Emacs - I get a Windows CMD line, when I launch from within cygwin - I get a cygwin type shell.

export ESHELL="c:/cygwin64/bin/bash.exe"