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From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 48579@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48579: 28.0.50; Spawning an emacs process using call-process results in inconsistent, behavior between GNU/Linux and macOS
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 14:04:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKkBepRHimos55d8@idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3bd2559-55f4-b944-56dd-532229fee2de@daniel-mendler.de>

On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 02:54:26PM +0200, Daniel Mendler wrote:
> But this discussion here seems to be a bit off-track. My point here is
> that the current working directory determination on MacOS uses a
> heuristic, which is not correct. It incorrectly determines that Emacs
> has been launched from the finder or some other Mac GUI application and
> therefore changes the directory to the home directory. If Emacs is
> indeed started from the GUI, this makes all sense. But this is not the
> case here. The TTY heuristic, that Alan described, is insufficient.

I can't find any other way, and we had multiple complaints when the
behaviour was broken whereas this is the first complaint in the other
direction that I've seen.

If you find an alternative, please let us know.
-- 
Alan Third





  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-22 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-22  5:30 bug#48579: 28.0.50; Spawning an emacs process using call-process results in inconsistent behavior between GNU/Linux and macOS Raj Krishnan
2021-05-22 10:26 ` Alan Third
2021-05-22 10:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 11:35     ` Raj Krishnan
2021-05-22 11:44 ` bug#48579: 28.0.50; Spawning an emacs process using call-process results in inconsistent, " Daniel Mendler
2021-05-22 12:06   ` Alan Third
2021-05-22 12:14     ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-22 12:29       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 12:41         ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-22 12:47           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 13:01       ` Alan Third
2021-05-22 13:10         ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-22 13:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 13:15           ` Daniel Mendler
2022-07-15 10:01             ` bug#48579: 28.0.50; Spawning an emacs process using call-process results in inconsistent " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-22 12:20   ` bug#48579: 28.0.50; Spawning an emacs process using call-process results in inconsistent, " Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 12:37     ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-22 12:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 12:54         ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-22 13:04           ` Alan Third [this message]
2021-05-22 13:13             ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-22 13:20               ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-22 13:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 10:30             ` Philipp

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