[PATCH] emacs: Make the shell location configurable
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Tue Aug 15 06:53:50 PDT 2017
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
> --
> 2.11.0
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