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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl>
Cc: 15461@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15461: 24.3; exec-path on ms windows should contain current directory
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:48:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838uykhpgk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5242E42A.4050109@poczta.onet.pl>

> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:24:58 +0200
> From: Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl>
> 
> To be consistent with the native shell on Microsoft Windows,
> the exec-path should include current directory.

In Emacs, every buffer has its own "current directory", the value of
default-directory of that buffer.  So you are in effect proposing to
change exec-path whenever a buffer is switched, including temporary
buffers used by Emacs under the hood and whatnot.

OTOH, the current directory is always implicitly present, so while
completion indeed doesn't happen, typing "M-! test.bat RET" _will_ in
fact invoke the batch file.

So I wonder what are the real-life use cases that motivated you to ask
for this change.  Is that only completion?





  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-25 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-25 13:24 bug#15461: 24.3; exec-path on ms windows should contain current directory Jarek Czekalski
2013-09-25 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-09-26 17:23 ` bug#15461: why do I need it Jarek Czekalski
2013-09-26 17:59   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-26 20:39     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-26 20:40 ` bug#15461: answer Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-15 20:32 ` bug#15461: 24.3; exec-path on ms windows should contain current directory Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-15 21:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-16  8:06 ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-16 16:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-18  8:15     ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-25 23:14 ` bug#15461: 24.3; [PATCH] " Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-26 16:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-26 22:27     ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-26 23:22       ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-12-27  8:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-27 21:02         ` Jarek Czekalski

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