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From: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Cc: 48072@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48072: 28.0.50: dired-read-shell-command: handle empty input properly [PATCH]
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:19:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fszbnd70.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210428030025.75hiu5zgrll2qzeq@E15-2016.optimum.net> (Boruch Baum's message of "Tue, 27 Apr 2021 23:00:25 -0400")

Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> writes:

>> > > This is certainly a mistake: a valid shell command doesn't have to be
>> > > a file that executable-find is able to find.  Shells are known to
>> > > support all kinds of internal and magic commands.
>> >
>> > My testing indicates otherwise.
>>
>> Would you care to share the details of that testing, please?
>
> I evaluated shell-command-to-string for shell aliases and shell
> functions, all of which returned error of type 'command not found'. That
> would indicate that the class of 'internal commands' aren't valid in the
> current state of emacs.

Shell builtins seem to work though:

M-: (shell-command-to-string "type echo")
"echo is a shell builtin
"
M-: (shell-command-to-string "which type")
"which: no type in (…)
"





  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-28  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-27 19:02 bug#48072: 28.0.50: dired-read-shell-command: handle empty input properly [PATCH] Boruch Baum
2021-04-27 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-27 19:32   ` Boruch Baum
2021-04-28  2:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-28  3:00       ` Boruch Baum
2021-04-28  6:19         ` Kévin Le Gouguec [this message]
2021-04-28  9:33           ` Boruch Baum
2021-04-28  9:50           ` Boruch Baum
2021-04-28 11:58             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-28 12:49               ` Boruch Baum
2021-04-28 13:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-28 15:01                   ` Boruch Baum
2021-04-28 15:13                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-28 15:21                       ` Boruch Baum
2021-04-28 15:52                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-28 17:10                           ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-28 15:16                   ` Boruch Baum
2021-04-28 11:47           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-28 11:03 ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-28 12:00   ` Boruch Baum
2021-04-28 12:13     ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-28 12:46       ` Boruch Baum

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