From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:41:51 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021030153247.5BD5.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <20021030083724.5BCC.LEKTU@terra.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035988952 10123 80.91.224.249 (30 Oct 2002 14:42:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186u3A-0002cq-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:42:28 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186u8I-00054l-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:47:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186u3x-0002L8-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186u2q-000119-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:42:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186u2h-0000f4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.141] (helo=mail.peoplecall.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186u2g-0000aT-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:41:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.143] (jbarranquero.ofi.peoplecall.com [62.22.27.143]) by mail.peoplecall.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9UEfp016767; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:41:51 +0100 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05.06 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8951 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8951 On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:10:44 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii wrote: > So I don't see anything especially fragile here. Well, I do. Anyway, when I say "fragile" I'm thinking more in the fact that the detection method works for relatively stable environments. I often modify my PATH and also quite often I have several CMD sessions open with different PATHs. I'd much prefer to configure a variable (be that an Emacs variable or an environment variable) and have it set up forever. Still, you say: > ??? I suggested to do this as part of the rcs2log script itself. So PATH > changes will be noted the next time the script runs, and acted upon at > that very moment. Detecting which sort is the correct one *every* time rcs2log runs seems weird to me. And still holds true what I've said: we have quite a few -program variables for very similar reasons. sql-mode doesn't do any detecting 'round to find if I have sqlplus.exe or plus80.exe or whatever. /L/e/k/t/u