From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32 Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:24:26 +0100 Message-ID: <874o9n1l9h.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <878vz0173n.fsf@telefonica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294239741 1243 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2011 15:02:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7784@debbugs.gnu.org, Sam Steingold To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 16:02:16 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaUsN-0004AZ-BL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:02:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaUkj-0000uj-6C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:54:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33649 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaUkN-0000iJ-C8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:53:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaUkJ-0003TJ-Fm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:53:55 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38940) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaUkJ-0003TE-E3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:53:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaUBe-0002kt-2D; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:18:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:18:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7784 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7784-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7784.129423704010544 (code B ref 7784); Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7784) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jan 2011 14:17:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaUAx-0002k1-Vm for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:17:20 -0500 Original-Received: from impaqm3.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.19] helo=telefonica.net) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaUAv-0002jn-2M for 7784@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost2.adm.correo ([10.20.102.39]) by IMPaqm3.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id rkBM1f00k0r0BT63PqQU8j; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:24:28 +0100 Original-Received: from qcore ([88.24.214.212]) by IMPmailhost2.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id rqQS1f00b4bXV5U1iqQSXA; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:24:28 +0100 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-original-sender: 981711563@telefonica.net In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:26:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:18:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43100 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > How would this be useful? Right now, it returns true for files that > you can "execute" from the native Windows build of Emacs using native > Windows shells and the cmd proxy that is part of the Emacs package. One thing I noticed while experimenting with file-executable-p is that it returns false for files with extensions listed in PATHEXT. For instance, .JS is listed on one machine's PATHEXT but, after creating foo.js, (file-executable-p "foo.js") returns nil. As those files are directly executable from the shell, maybe Emacs should recognize them as executables as well? [snip]