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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Robert Ewald <robewald@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Make the shell location configurable
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Robert Ewald <robewald@gmx.net> writes:

>> On 16 Aug 2017, at 01:38, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

Is the requirement for shell-file-name to be POSIX compatible documented
somewhere in the emacs documentation?