From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CBA6DE11B3 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:03:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.011, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id c3ZOvATIv4tR for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:03:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E50C6DE112B for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1dheFf-0005Sg-Cz; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:59:31 -0400 Received: (nullmailer pid 11223 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:02:59 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Robert Ewald , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Make the shell location configurable In-Reply-To: <20170814223623.28411-1-robewald@gmx.net> References: <20170814223623.28411-1-robewald@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:02:59 -0300 Message-ID: <87fucsom30.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:03:09 -0000 Robert Ewald writes: > The location of the shell is not always /bin/sh. Use the > shell-file-name variable to be able to specify the shell location. > --- Can you say a bit more about the problem you are trying to solve? I think shell-file-name is not guaranteed to be Bourne shell compatible. d