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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 15461@debbugs.gnu.org, Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl>
Subject: bug#15461: why do I need it
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:39:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvc1nxqsw.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pprvfoqh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:59:34 +0300")

> If the only use case where you need this is completion of executables,
> an alternative solution could be to teach such completion to look in
> the current buffer's default directory, on systems where that is
> implicit.  This could be an easier solution than futzing with the
> environment.

Completion should mirror the behavior of the code that spawns the
process, so if the process name can be relative to default-directory,
completion should also accept file names in default-directory.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-26 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-25 13:24 bug#15461: 24.3; exec-path on ms windows should contain current directory Jarek Czekalski
2013-09-25 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-26 17:23 ` bug#15461: why do I need it Jarek Czekalski
2013-09-26 17:59   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-26 20:39     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-09-26 20:40 ` bug#15461: answer Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-15 20:32 ` bug#15461: 24.3; exec-path on ms windows should contain current directory Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-15 21:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-16  8:06 ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-16 16:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-18  8:15     ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-25 23:14 ` bug#15461: 24.3; [PATCH] " Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-26 16:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-26 22:27     ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-26 23:22       ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-12-27  8:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-27 21:02         ` Jarek Czekalski

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