Running xemacs from Hugs under Windows

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Hi Phil,

you're experiencing a subtle difference between the
:edit and :! commands that was introduced very recently.
The latter executes a command via a command interpreter
(cmd.exe most likely, in your case), which understands
Win32 command shortcuts (i.e., ".lnk" files)

The :edit command doesn't go via a command shell, so
when it tries to execute the xemacs.lnk file as a binary,
it fails.

This difference in behaviour is unfortunate & I'll look into
whether we can do away with it. In the meantime, the solution
is to manually dereference the shortcut and instead of using
xemacs.lnk, use its application target. (In the unlikely event you
don't know where to locate that tidbit, right-click on xemacs.lnk
via the Explorer to bring up the Properties for the shortcut.)

hth
--sigbjorn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Wadler" <wadler@research.avayalabs.com>
To: <hugs-bugs@haskell.org>
Cc: "Mark P Jones" <mpj@cse.ogi.edu>; <wadler@research.avayalabs.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 15:35
Subject: Running xemacs from Hugs under Windows


> Running Hugs98 under Win2k (December 2001 version),
> I can invoke the xemacs editor with
>   > :! xemacs.lnk +10 c:/prog/hugs/example.hs
> Then I set
>   Editor setting  : -E"xemacs.lnk +%d %s"
> But if I then type
>   > :e
> it reports
>  Warning: Editor terminated abnormally
> Any idea as to what might be wrong or how to fix it?
> Best wishes for the holiday season,  -- P
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