From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [michael.cadilhac@lrde.org: PC-do-completion with directories adding stars.]
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:49:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1wxec111.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pskzqoco.fsf@mahaena.lrde> (message from Michael Cadilhac on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:01:43 +0100)
> From: Michael Cadilhac <michael.cadilhac@lrde.org>
> Cc: Michael Cadilhac <michael.cadilhac@lrde.org>, Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>, eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:01:43 +0100
>
> > Problem is that this will fail depending on the user's shell (zsh vs tcsh
> > vs bash vs rc vs ...).
>
> Well, can't we just do something like
>
> (let ((shell-file-name "sh"))
> (shell-command ...))
>
> Or directly use (call-process "sh" ...) to make sure we have
> a Bourne compatible shell ?
>
> Maybe there's an issue with Windows, I don't know.
Yes, there is. You cannot assume there's a port of "sh" on Windows.
So any solution that needs "sh" is not a good idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-07 4:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-05 0:59 [michael.cadilhac@lrde.org: PC-do-completion with directories adding stars.] Richard Stallman
2006-03-05 4:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-05 14:00 ` Michael Cadilhac
2006-03-05 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-05 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-05 21:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-06 3:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-06 3:31 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-06 7:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-06 14:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-06 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-06 20:18 ` Michael Cadilhac
2006-03-06 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-06 21:01 ` Michael Cadilhac
2006-03-07 4:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-03-07 11:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-03-07 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-07 23:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-03-06 0:49 ` Richard Stallman
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