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Re: man.el should avoid "sh"
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Kevin Rodgers |
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Re: man.el should avoid "sh" |
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Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:53:57 -0600 |
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Max Polk wrote:
> Running emacs in Windows, by typing "M-x man ls" I get an error
> message that "sh" is not found.
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> Here's a minor fix for man.el, line 618:
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> - (start-process manual-program buffer "sh" "-c"
> + (start-process manual-program buffer shell-file-name "-c"
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> 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.
You should also replace "-c" with shell-command-switch.
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Kevin Rodgers