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Questions tagged [cygwin]

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Setting up Ditaa in Org-mode

I've been having trouble setting up ditaa to work in emacs, I got my copy of the ditaa jar from here And I've been trying to run this code block #+begin_src ditaa :file hello.png :exports results +----------------+ | Hello World!!! | | …
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What flows are usable with WSL and Emacs (Windows Subsystem For Linux)?

I have negative experience with Cygwin but it's only the one option I have on Windows. In recent days Cygwin provides W32 build which has native UI (copy/paste, widgets) with tight integration to Cygwin (pty and Cygwin paths). But BLODA ruins that…
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Experience with WSL as underlying shell (esp. with Texlive) for native win-x64 Emacs

I've been using MinGW compiled native windows 64-bit Emacs for a while, and I paired it with Cygwin to use especially Texlive, as well as other common linux and shell programs and commands. I am considering switching to Windows Subsystem for Linux…
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Emacs on cygwin: How to open file/directory on windows share

With Emacs running on Windows (without cygwin) I am able to open a remote (windows share) directory with C-x C-f //IPADDRESS/d$ RET command. With Emacs on cygwin, I tried /smb:IPADDRESS:/d$$ RET. However, I got the below error message, Host…
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error: Invalid byte opcode: op=183, ptr=2

I byte-compile my ~/.emacs.d/init.el. It was done by Emacs 26.1 from Cygwin and I got error when load emacs-nox 25.2 from Debian WSL: error: Invalid byte opcode: op=183, ptr=2 Were new opcodes introduced into Emacs byte code starting from v26? For…
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Windows 10 native (spac)emacs install can't call cygwin binary (ledger) with proper path passed

I'd like to use Windows (10) native Emacs (spacemacs) and ledger (both installed via Chocolatey). The finance layer from spacemacs provides integration for it, however when I tried to run a simple register report it gave me the following…
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DOS line endings in Cygwin break emacs

I started using Spacemacs with GUI Emacs on Windows and all was fine apart from using Tramp with plink so I decided to use Cygwin with emacs-32 (and Spacemacs) because there is proper ssh there. Now everything is a bit quicker and Tramp works really…
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Under Cygwin, how do we get a list of available printers?

I would like to choose which printer is used for printing in Emacs. Before I can set printer-name to something, I need to know the names of the available printers. Under Windows, I can see the available printers in the "Devices and Printers"…
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emacs compilation mode under cygwin with mixed path types

I am using emacs 27.2 under cygwin and compilation-mode to build software and jumping to any compilation errors with 'next-error. The build system is GnuWin32 make. Therefore, I have to live with mixed path types. GnuWin32 make will produce…
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Folder navigation on remote windows machine can't see folders with spaces

I've been trying to navigate folder structures on a remote Windows machine with Cygwin installed, but I can't seem to navigate to folders which contain a space in them. Emacs claims that "File no longer exists; type 'g' to update Dired buffer",…
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Empty buffer shows when using emacsclient on windows

I am using GNU Emacs for Windows alongside of cygwin, and I want to set my EDITOR shell variable to be emacsclient -a=. My problem is that when certain programs try to use EDITOR to launch an editor with some pre-populated text, like git commit,…
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How to setup VS2015 developer shell for cygwin emacs?

I have cygwin emacs running on a machine with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 installed. I would like (for a number of reasons) to set it up as a shell, so that i would be able to run its developer commands from inside emacs As far as i know, in…
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How to open a file from Windows explorer in Cygwin Emacs

I currently have Cygwin Emacs installed on my Windows machine. I am wondering: Is there a way to open files from Windows Explorer in Emacs (which would be running in terminal mode in Cygwin). The default is always notepad or all the GUI…
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Why can't AucTeX see my TeXLive binaries? (Cygwin on Windows 7 x64)

I have installed the TeXLive distribution. From emacs running in cygwin mintty, the LaTeX binaries are visible from my PATH environment variable. I installed AucTeX using the built in Emacs package manager with the package from Elpa. $ which…
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File association with cygwin emacs-w32

I invested a lot of time to get a Windows file association working with cygwin emacsclient-w32. But every "solution" has some dead end that I can't solve. Any help really appreciated. What I want is a simple file association for .cfg and .txt files…
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