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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, gnuplot-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net,
	bug-autoconf@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, chet.ramey@case.edu
Subject: Re: emacs Shell mode vs AC_CHECK_PROG(EMACS, ...)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:58:28 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874pvbj2bf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.6803.1158013410.9609.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Don Bashford's message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:40:51 -0500")

<Don.Bashford@stjude.org> writes:
>For example, emacs could send the shell something like "shopt
> -u -o emacs; shopt -u -o vi".  Then emacs could leave EMACS alone.

Stuffing input to a subshell like that is in general not something you
can do reliably.

-miles

-- 
We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-13 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-11  3:46 emacs Shell mode vs AC_CHECK_PROG(EMACS, ...) Don.Bashford
2006-09-11 17:42 ` Paul Eggert
2006-09-12 15:28   ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-11 19:57 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-11 20:55   ` Chet Ramey
2006-09-11 21:40     ` Don.Bashford
2006-09-11 21:10   ` Don.Bashford
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6803.1158013410.9609.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-13 13:58     ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-09-13 17:12       ` Chet Ramey
2006-09-13 22:10         ` Kim F. Storm

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