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24.4; Artist Mode on Windows using figlet requires /bin/sh

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Ziems <sane <at> xiron.de>

Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 18:04:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.4

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
To: 20167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20167: 24.4; Artist Mode on Windows using figlet requires /bin/sh 
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 18:55:25 +0000
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:32:21 +0100  From: Michael Ziems

 >> i tried to use Artist Mode on my windows machine, but when i want to
 >> add text i get the following error message: artist-system: Searching
 >> for program: no such file or directory, /bin/sh

 >> Wasamasa on the irc-channel of emacs was so kind and told me that
 >> this issue seems to be because of figlet and he recommended me to
 >> add this as a bug report.

 > Please show a complete recipe to reproduce this problem, starting
 > with "emacs -Q".

	Could you please try the following on W32 (W64)?

(progn (require 'artist)
       (artist-figlet-get-font-list))

	Or something like:

C-x b *x* RET
M-x artist-mode RET
M-x artist-select-op-text-overwrite RET
RET Test. RET RET RET

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