From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Wrong PATH in MSYS2/MINGW64 builds? Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 09:05:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83iobbx6ju.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55671E77.8030404@alice.it> <834mmwyc0i.fsf@gnu.org> <87fv6gaf4r.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y4k8wtdd.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3q0wrvw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432879536 3038 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2015 06:05:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 06:05:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 29 08:05:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YyDQ4-0006M1-5H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 08:05:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33715 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyDQ3-0001xr-BD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyDPz-0001xj-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyDPw-00016O-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:37729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyDPv-00016H-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NP300K00KWQLY00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 09:05:14 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NP300KKRKWP4Y90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 29 May 2015 09:05:14 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186942 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 08:05:46 +0600 > Cc: =C3=93scar Fuentes ,=20 > =09Emacs developers >=20 > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrot= e: > >> >> From: =C3=93scar Fuentes > >> >> > >> >> I would expect from Emacs to be able to execute the applicati= ons that > >> >> reside on the same directory as emacs.exe. > >> > > >> > Why would you expect that? > >> > >> Because it's the default native behavior on Windows? > >> > > Why would you think Emacs should invoke CreateProcess with just > > "bzip2" as the program name? >=20 > I'm not thinking what Emacs "should" or "should not". I'm just > pointing out that being able to run programs that reside in the sam= e > directory as the calling process' executable (as well as several ot= her > directories not necessarily listed on $PATH) is a reasonable > expectation for a Windows user. This is a developers' forum, not a users' forum. People here are expected to have their expectations modified by their acquaintance with how Emacs really works. And since Emacs is originally not a Windows program, there's no reason to expect it to behave like one in this regard, since there are no similar features on Posix platforms.