term and ansi-term on windows
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kitcarson03 · 2022-12-14 18:09

Hi,

it's a while i'm trying to make the native version of emacs in windows
(not the cygwin one) run term or ansi-term but i always get the
"spawning child process: invalid argument". i know that using the
cygwin version solve this problem but it has other disadvantages.

Do you know any solution or a workaround to this issue?

EDIT: maybe it'll turn out i'm entering the wrong path or something
else but
[https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/running-shells-in-emacs-
overview](https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/running-shells-in-
emacs-overview) suggest that "out-of-the-box" term and ansi-term don't
work in windows. my question could also be "how can i make them work"?

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MitchellMarquez42 · 2022-12-14 20:09

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7890yuiop · 2022-12-14 22:16

Which program are you trying to run in the terminal?  Have you
confirmed whether you have that program installed?  If it's not an
absolute filename then the `PATH` inherited by Emacs (see `process-
environment`) must include the relevant directory.

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hangingpawns · 2022-12-14 22:36

term and ansi-term expect bash or zsh or something like that.. for
example, if I do ansi-term, it expects /bin/bash in the path.

Naturally, Windows doesn't have /bin/bash, so what do you want emacs
to run instead?

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kitcarson03 · 2022-12-15 09:17

in case you're not being rethorical, either cmd or powershell are ok

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hangingpawns · 2022-12-15 15:38

PowerShell is a terminal emulator, not a shell like bash. PowerShell
runs a shell, but is not a shell.