From: Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log]
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:43:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021030083724.5BCC.LEKTU@terra.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7458-Tue29Oct2002223952+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:39:53 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:
> Why is it fragile?
Because you are executing programs that you don't control (what if
trying a sort.exe causes a crash or any other kind of problem), and
because probably it'd fail if I happen to modify the PATH afterwards.
If I have to manually configure a variable and after a while I change
the path I'm more prone to remember it that if Emacs somehow configured
it behind my back.
> This would require users to customize the variable. Without a proper
> customization, the relevant feature will be broken.
Sure. But we already have cases like these now, and they're resolved by
having -program variables. The first "find.exe" in my PATH is
C:\WINNT\system32\find.exe. Same for ftp and telnet. Ange-FTP didn't try
to find what was the "right" ftp, I manually configured
`ange-ftp-ftp-program'.
Having good defaults helps here.
/L/e/k/t/u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-30 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-26 20:16 [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Richard Stallman
2002-10-28 16:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-28 17:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-29 7:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 10:21 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 10:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 15:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 15:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 17:06 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 19:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 10:36 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-31 17:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-29 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 10:59 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
[not found] ` <200210301600.g9UG0VT22546@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-10-30 16:51 ` rcs2log.bat Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 19:47 ` [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 10:29 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 16:36 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 17:10 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 7:43 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2002-10-30 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 14:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-11-02 12:01 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-10-31 17:26 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-30 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
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