man command is broken

[Nick Roberts]

This change breaks "M-x man" for me:

2004-05-11  Alexander Pohoyda  <address@hidden>  (tiny change)

        * man.el (Man-getpage-in-background): Use shell-file-name
        and shell-command-switch variables instead of hard-coded values.

My SHELL environment variable (and hence shell-file-name) is /bin/tcsh

In the manpage buffer I get:

> Unmatched '.
> BEGIN: Command not found.
> anonblank=0: Command not found.
> }: Command not found.
> Illegal variable name.
> {: Command not found.
}: Command not found.
> Illegal variable name.
> Badly placed ()'s.
> Unmatched '.

> process exited abnormally with code 1

If I set SHELL to /bin/sh and restart emacs everything works fine as again.

Nick



In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.7 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-06-06 on nick.uklinux.net
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_GB
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_GB
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB
  value of $LANG: en_GB
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Help

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-compression-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  view-mode: t