Re: SHELL in shell.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 14:20:31 -0500
> 
> > The difference between the old and the new code is that if someone
> > modified the value of $SHELL inside Emacs, you will get the same
> > complaints as with shell-file-name before the change.
> > 
> > I don't know if this will cause any problems in practice.
> 
> Good point.  So maybe I should just revert it, or does anybody
> know whether it's more common to set shell-file-name than to
> (setenv "SHELL" foo) ?

I guess it's something for Jason to comment on: I think Windows users
are those who mostly play with shell-file-name and $SHELL.