Re: [PATCH] emacs: Make the shell location configurable

[Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>]

On Tue, Aug 15 2017, Robert Ewald wrote:

> The location of the shell is not always /bin/sh. Use the
> shell-file-name variable to be able to specify the shell location.
> ---
>  emacs/notmuch-lib.el | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
> index 337b20ac..8dffe9f2 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
> @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ status."
>  	 (command (or (executable-find notmuch-command)
>  		      (error "command not found: %s" notmuch-command)))
>  	 (proc (apply #'start-process name buffer
> -		      "/bin/sh" "-c"
> +		      shell-file-name "-c"
>  		      "exec 2>\"$1\"; shift; exec \"$0\" \"$@\""
>  		      command err-file args)))
>      (process-put proc 'err-file err-file)

I don't yet know a (unix) system where /bin/sh did not provide a bourne
compatible shell that supports the syntax used above.

My shell-file-name expands to "/bin/zsh". I wonder if it expanded like
"/usr/bin/tcsh" or "/path/to/fish" or "/path/to/rc" those worked here.


Tomi


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