From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: executable-find in files.el Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:50:57 +0200 Message-ID: <854qd9jp9a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <01c55657$Blat.v2.4$7979dc20@zahav.net.il> <87fywt6128.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <01c5567c$Blat.v2.4$d8bc9c20@zahav.net.il> <87zmv12wig.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115856005 15350 80.91.229.2 (12 May 2005 00:00:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:00:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 12 02:00:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW17E-0004sT-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:59:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW1G4-0000fe-FY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DW1Cj-0007Bk-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DW1Cb-00079d-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW1CX-00072d-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DW15R-0003NA-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 19:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DW0xm-00011A-7S; Wed, 11 May 2005 19:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8DD391C46518; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:50:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87zmv12wig.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 11 May 2005 19:16:46 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37002 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37002 Stefan Monnier writes: > Fine, but as long as noone changes call-process to do something > meaningful when requested to execute a file which is only available > via a file-name-handler, I think we should stick to 1 because I > think it's more important to match the behavior of call-process (as > I wrote in the comment). > > But, really, this is all academic anyway since I don't know of anyone who > has funny file-name-handled directories on her exec-path. M-x eshell RET Welcome to the Emacs shell /tmp $ cd /fencepost.gnu.org: /ssh:fencepost.gnu.org:/home/d/dak $ echo "\input story \bye" >junk.tex /ssh:fencepost.gnu.org:/home/d/dak $ tex junk /ssh:fencepost.gnu.org:/home/d/dak $ cat junk.log This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=tex 2005.4.18) 11 MAY 2005 19:44 **junk (./junk.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/base/story.tex [1]) ) Output written on junk.dvi (1 page, 668 bytes). /ssh:fencepost.gnu.org:/home/d/dak $ -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum