2009/6/26 Matt Wozniski: > > > There's a bit in the TIPS section of the manual on how to set any > > environment variable using the shell's -c option, e.g.: > > > > mintty sh -c "TERM=xterm-256color emacs" > > Hm. Maybe I'm missing something, but - isn't this a place where using > /bin/env would make more sense than dealing with all the extra > processing required to launch a shell? For instance, > > mintty env TERM=xterm-256color emacs
Ah, I wasn't aware of that command. Very handy. I'll change the manual accordingly. Thanks, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
