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From: Robert Ewald <robewald@gmx.net>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Make the shell location configurable
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:17:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57061C6E-AF81-4C8B-9BA8-62747BB1806D@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lt8jtak.fsf@tethera.net>


> On 16 Aug 2017, at 01:38, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> 
> Robert Ewald <robewald@gmx.net> writes:
> 
>> Does the shell-file-name have to be bourne shell compatible? My
>> understanding is that using "/bin/sh" requires a POSIX compatible shell, 
>> bash specific shell scripts should be invoked with e.g. /bin/bash.
>> I believe a POSIX compatible shell is sufficient in this particular case. 
>> Of course, if shell-file-name is not POSIX compatible this line may not 
>> work.
> 
> Yeah, I was sloppy. Hopefully POSIX compatibility is enough (if not we
> can probably fix that). But as you note there's no guarantee
> shell-file-name is POSIX compatible.
> 
> d

I did some research: apparently shell-file-name should be POSIX compatible,
otherwise many plugins don't work. explicit-shell-file-name however can be set to
fish or tcsh if you want to use that in M-x shell.

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/28647/how-do-i-change-the-default-shell-for-shell-command

So I think the patch as submitted is good, please apply.

Thanks.

Robert.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-16  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-14 22:36 [PATCH] emacs: Make the shell location configurable Robert Ewald
2017-08-15 13:53 ` Tomi Ollila
2017-08-15 16:02 ` David Bremner
2017-08-15 20:04   ` Robert Ewald
2017-08-15 23:38     ` David Bremner
2017-08-16  7:17       ` Robert Ewald [this message]
2017-08-16 11:09         ` David Bremner
2017-08-16 20:16           ` Robert Ewald
2017-08-17 11:44             ` David Bremner
2017-08-17 12:15               ` Tomi Ollila
2017-08-17 21:46               ` David Bremner

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