Re: Codepages and shell function on w32

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:20:47 +0100
>> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> CC: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>>       (shell-mode)
>>       (when (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
>>         (let* ((shell-file-name prog)
>>                (proc (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))
>>                (fullprog (executable-find prog))
>>                (cp-out (read (format "cp%s" (w32-get-console-output-codepage))))
>>                (cp-out-dos (coding-system-change-eol-conversion cp-out 'dos))
>>                (cp-out-unix (coding-system-change-eol-conversion cp-out 'unix))
>>                (cp-in  (read (format "cp%s" (w32-get-console-codepage))))
>>                (cp-in-dos (coding-system-change-eol-conversion cp-in 'dos))
>>                (cp-in-unix (coding-system-change-eol-conversion cp-in 'unix)))
>>           (cond
>>            ((w32-shell-dos-semantics)
>>             (set-process-coding-system proc cp-out-dos cp-in-unix))
>>            ((string-match "/msys/" fullprog)
>>             (message "think it is MSYS...")
>>             (set-process-coding-system proc cp-out-dos 'undecided-unix))
>>            ((string-match "/cygwin/" fullprog)
>>             (message "think it is Cygwin...")
>>             (set-process-coding-system proc cp-out-dos 'undecided-unix))
>>            (t
>>             (message "unrecognized shell program: %s" fullprog))
>>            )))))
>>   buffer)
>>
>> Is this what you meant Eli?
>>     
>
> Something like that, but I doubt that using cp-out with MSYS and
> Cygwin is a good idea, since they don't support that.
>   

The only reason to use cp-out-dos for MSYS and Cygwin is that this makes 
the output correct for w32 console programs they may run. However I do 
not know if it creates some problems since I do not know the char tables 
very well. Maybe it is better to just leave the coding system for MSYS 
and Cygwin as before?.

Do we agree about the cmdproxy part? How about installing that?