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 18:07:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83y4m8nd9c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <551ADED4.4010903@gmail.com> <83twx1rpng.fsf@gnu.org> <867ftwyedc.fsf@gmail.com> <831tk0p4ey.fsf@gnu.org> <86a8yoq7wt.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428160111 3813 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2015 15:08:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 15:08:31 +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 17:08:12 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 1YePgB-0004hg-Us for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 17:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33374 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YePgA-0003qr-Ib for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32926) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YePg6-0003qb-OI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:08:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YePg2-0007A6-L3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YePg2-0007A1-HY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YePg2-0006YH-5k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:08:02 -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 15:08:02 +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=B20237.142816004125133 (code B ref 20237); Sat, 04 Apr 2015 15:08:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20237) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Apr 2015 15:07:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44839 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YePfN-0006XH-23 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:07:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:54345) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YePfK-0006Wy-45 for 20237@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:07:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMA00B00F8M2500@mtaout26.012.net.il> for 20237@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:08:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMA001V7FDYLH70@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:08:22 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <86a8yoq7wt.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:101187 Archived-At: > From: Andy Moreton > Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 15:34:26 +0100 > > >> 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? > > Because removing the shell-quote-argument call fixed it for me: But that might mean some other bug elsewhere, which is simply concealed by removing the quoting. The quoting is probably necessary if the Python install directory's name includes whitespace. Can you tell where the quoting causes that strange prefix be prepended? I got as far as split-string-and-unquote in python-shell-make-comint, and still saw no apparent problems. Thanks.