Re: compilation-start without shell?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:07:40 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I tried to get PowerShell scripts working from inside Emacs. That was
> quite tricky so I decided to try to bypass the cmd.exe shell by
> changing compilation-start the way I suggested.

It's not clear how using PowerShell scripts is related to compilation.

Anyway, the proper way of doing that is to set shell-file-name to
PowerShell, and maybe customize w32-system-shells to include it.

> Making the change I suggested can be useful. It is just a few lines
> changes. I can send a patch for it.

I still don't understand the problem.  Can you show an example and
some error message?