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man.el should avoid "sh"


From: Max Polk
Subject: man.el should avoid "sh"
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:20:33 -0400 (EDT)

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2003-03-27 on buffy
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Running emacs in Windows, by typing "M-x man ls" I get an error message
that "sh" is not found.

Here's a minor fix for man.el, line 618:

-            (start-process manual-program buffer "sh" "-c"
+            (start-process manual-program buffer shell-file-name "-c"

This replaces the hard-coded "sh" with the variable shell-file-name.  Notice
that just below this shell-file-name is used and not "sh" so maybe it got
fixed in one place but not the other.

My shell-file-name happens to be "c:/cyg/bin/bash.exe".

I don't believe this is a PATH issue, even if it is, "sh" should still
probably be avoided.

Thanks,  Max Polk






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