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From: howie@cucca.UUCP (Howie Kaye)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Bug in Shell handling in GNUemacs V16.60
Message-ID: <155@cucca.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 18:01:23 EST
Article-I.D.: cucca.155
Posted: Sun Nov 17 18:01:23 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Nov-85 03:28:25 EST
Reply-To: howie@cucca.UUCP (Howie Kaye)
Organization: Columbia University Center for Computing Activities
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There was a bug in gnuemacs, where it was not using the shell
specified in the user's ESHELL variable for shell-commands.  Emacs was
instead using a variable shell-file-name.  This variable is set to the
value of the shell's SHELL variable in init_callproc in callproc.c,
but the ESHELL variable was ignored.  The diffs for a fix to the file
"callproc.c" are given below.


296c296,297
<   sh = (char *) getenv ("SHELL");
---
>   sh = (char *) getenv ("ESHELL");
>   if (!sh) sh = (char *) getenv ("SHELL");
304c305,306
< Initialized from the SHELL environment variable.");
---
> Initialized from the ESHELL environment variable, or the SHELL\n\
> environment variable if ESHELL doesn't exist.");


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