From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20237: Emacs built on Windows cannot figure out path correctly Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:35:17 +0300 Message-ID: <831tk0p4ey.fsf@gnu.org> References: <551ADED4.4010903@gmail.com> <83twx1rpng.fsf@gnu.org> <867ftwyedc.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428143782 14061 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2015 10:36:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 10:36:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20237@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 04 12:36:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1YeLQx-00063t-65 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:36:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YeLQw-0000Ss-8f for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 06:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YeLQt-0000Si-54 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 06:36:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YeLQo-0005dX-Qj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 06:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YeLQo-0005dT-Nn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 06:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YeLQo-0006yG-Ig for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 06:36:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20237 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20237-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20237.142814372826753 (code B ref 20237); Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20237) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Apr 2015 10:35:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44355 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YeLQF-0006xP-3B for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 06:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:53279) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YeLQD-0006xC-47 for 20237@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 06:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMA00M00297P800@mtaout24.012.net.il> for 20237@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:26:53 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMA00MK92CTHL00@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:26:53 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <867ftwyedc.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101178 Archived-At: > From: Andy Moreton > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:46:23 +0100 > > On Tue 31 Mar 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:52:20 -0400 > >> From: Da Zhang > >> > >> I am using Python mode in Emacs and wanted to start a python > >> sub-process. > >> However, Emacs could not find python.exe from the path I specified. > >> Particularly, the following message was displayed: > >> apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, > >> c\:/Python27/Scripts/ipython.exeInvalid face reference: python-cell > >> > >> It seemed a "C\:" was added in front of the path to the python. > > > > You didn't say which path of Python did you specify, and how didyou > > specify it. Please tell, otherwise it's very hard to figure out the > > reason for the problem. > > I have seen something similar - I think it's caused by incorrect > quoting: > > --[python.el]----------------------------------------------------------- > (defun python-shell-calculate-command () > "Calculate the string used to execute the inferior Python process." > (let ((exec-path (python-shell-calculate-exec-path))) > ;; `exec-path' gets tweaked so that virtualenv's specific > ;; `python-shell-interpreter' absolute path can be found by > ;; `executable-find'. > (format "%s %s" > ;; FIXME: Why executable-find? > (shell-quote-argument > (executable-find python-shell-interpreter)) > python-shell-interpreter-args))) > --[python.el]----------------------------------------------------------- > > Removing the use of shell-quote-argument seems to work around this > problem. I don't see why quoting here could do any harm. Could you elaborate on why you think it's wrong?