Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32 cmd-shell starts fail

[Lennart Borgman]

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

No problem.


> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Lennart
> Borgman<address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Nguyen Anh Phu<address@hidden> 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
>