From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Jerry Asher <ja2038@gmail.com>
Cc: 23186@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23186: closed (Re: bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match)
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 21:47:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8lbpzbv.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACTc7ZkuS2QB81NhNCWuJO1MQ35yXCCEBd9E1Cv-mT_E8zkt0g@mail.gmail.com> (Jerry Asher's message of "Sat, 2 Apr 2016 10:50:14 -0700")
Jerry Asher <ja2038@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Jerry,
>> Tramp is designed to work with Emacs as released by the Emacs
>> development team. That Emacs doesn't have this problem. I think it
>> would be unreasonable for anyone to expect the Tramp maintainers to
>> cater to arbitrary changes in the Emacs code or in how it is
>> configured on Windows, let alone if you poke some addresses in the PE
>> headers of the produced binary.
>
> We are ALREADY talking about a very specific setting IN emacs FOR
> Windows. God forbid we should ask the maintainers to discuss how emacs
> is configured on Windows in that context.
>
>> Your fix is AFAIK incorrect because the directory where cmd.exe
>> lives
>> is not necessarily C:\Windows\system32. It just happens to be there
>> on the particular system where you tried that.
>
> And I agree, setting the variable to nil where it is guaranteed to
> blow up, and is reported to do so as my search shows is FAR FAR better
> than finding a reasonable default that will work most of the time.
I'm not interested in any flamewar. Pls stop.
I haven't too much knowledge about MS Windows, and many years of
experience let me trust Eli.
If you are interested in changing Tramp according to your needs, pls be
cooperative. Make a proposal about a config option which could be used
instead of the COMSPEC env which doesn't exist in your environment. Make
a proposal how to avoid calling cmd.exe at all, it seems not be
mandatory, I believe. Propose something else what is possible.
Your first proposal, trusting C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, hasn't been
accepted, by reasons Eli has given. And indeed, it looks too me like too
much heuristic, so I'm with Eli.
Best regards, Michael.
PS: I am the Tramp maintainer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-02 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-02 16:06 bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 19:37 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-02 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 20:21 ` Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 7:05 ` Michael Albinus
[not found] ` <handler.23186.D23186.145961804117806.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-04-02 17:32 ` bug#23186: closed (Re: bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match) Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 17:37 ` Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 17:50 ` Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 19:47 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2016-04-02 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 20:19 ` Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 20:11 ` bug#23186: closed (Re: " Jerry Asher
2016-04-02 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 7:15 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-02 21:35 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-03 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 15:55 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-03 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 16:49 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-03 14:51 ` bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match Eli Zaretskii
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