From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs,gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.bugs Subject: Re: emacs Shell mode vs AC_CHECK_PROG(EMACS, ...) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:10:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158009166 24951 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2006 21:12:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Don.Bashford@stjude.org, don.bashford@stjude.org, Chet Ramey , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, gnuplot-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net, bug-autoconf@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-autoconf-bounces+gnu-bug-autoconf=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 11 23:12:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-bug-autoconf@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMt52-0004fu-0M for gnu-bug-autoconf@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:12:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMt51-0007UF-Ea for gnu-bug-autoconf@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:12:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMt3R-0006nl-6r for bug-autoconf@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:10:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMt3Q-0006nY-6U for bug-autoconf@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMt3Q-0006nV-1Q; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.55.208.21] (helo=mgate2.stjude.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GMt4j-0005Nj-TJ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:12:18 -0400 X-SEF-Processed: 5_0_0_910__2006_09_11_16_10_53 X-SEF-SJMEMMS3: 1 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Sep 2006 21:10:48.0269 (UTC) FILETIME=[C0EE87D0:01C6D5E6] X-BeenThere: bug-autoconf@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for autoconf List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-autoconf-bounces+gnu-bug-autoconf=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-autoconf-bounces+gnu-bug-autoconf=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs:5227 gmane.emacs.bugs:15318 gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.bugs:717 Archived-At: >>>>> "rms" == Richard Stallman writes: rms> For a short-term correction, I think the easiest way is to rms> change Autoconf to ignore a value of `t' for this environment rms> variable. Autoconf maintainers, what do you think? rms> For longer term, perhaps the best thing is to change Emacs to rms> use a different environment variable. Alas, I don't remember rms> what software checks that environment variable, or the motive rms> for binding it. rms> Is it Bash? I have cc'd the Bash maintainer so he can rms> answer. Yes, I think that's it. From the bash info pages: `EMACS' If Bash finds this variable in the environment when the shell starts with value `t', it assumes that the shell is running in an emacs shell buffer and disables line editing. -Don