From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell-command causes problems with absolute/relative paths in TAGS Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:46:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83d3awoehu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20120102223315.3E60F1810C9@neo.msri.org> <408087A3D7BE475B884C0F93CE2298C7@us.oracle.com> <AA798C0D220E44E5B798734A70C4CF93@EUROPE.ROOT.PRI> <20120105054142.GA10149@hysteria.proulx.com> <9C2570562E2A4B7BBDA61F564FCFC83F@EUROPE.ROOT.PRI> <20120105222030.GA22189@hysteria.proulx.com> <1CA9A2C2C5544CAAA163A0962C5C95F4@EUROPE.ROOT.PRI> <83pqexnjrk.fsf@gnu.org> <9287FF55897A4EED8EA883DC00F98BAC@EUROPE.ROOT.PRI> <83ipkoon0g.fsf@gnu.org> <96C2AF32F1EC4A1997BB692A003ED374@EUROPE.ROOT.PRI> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325875751 26919 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2012 18:49:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:49:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 19:49:06 2012 Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1RjEqe-0002ol-6C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:49:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1RjEqd-0007gI-Pt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1RjEqZ-0007ex-5E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:49:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1RjEqX-000324-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:48:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:48880) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1RjEqX-000320-Fs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:48:57 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LXE00K003TEOG00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:48:56 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.115.90]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LXE00K8V49JIH80@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:48:55 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <96C2AF32F1EC4A1997BB692A003ED374@EUROPE.ROOT.PRI> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs> List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83381 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/83381> > From: "David Chappaz" <david.chappaz@free.fr> > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:03:47 -0000 > > > > > The variable name depends on which shell you use. By default, only > > > explicit-bash-args and explicit-sh-args are defined in emacs. > > > On windows, cmdproxy.exe is the default shell, hence the variable name. > > > > Well, I tried that on Windows with cmdproxy as the shell, and I still > > don't see this variable. > > Ah well I haven't been accurate enough. > It's for the user to create this variable if they want to. It will only be > used if its name perfectly matches that of the shell. > See details in section 7.10 of > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/Sub_002dprocesses.html Never mind, that variable is not needed for reproducing the problem. > Surely emacs must be passing slightly different arguments to ctags (perhaps > slashes in a different orientation), before and after the first call to > call-process-region ? Probably some environment variable rather than command-line argument.