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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
Cc: 20167-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20167: 24.4;
 Artist Mode on Windows using figlet requires /bin/sh
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:37:39 +0200

> From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
> 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

Thanks, fixed.

P.S. What were those guys thinking when they wrote that code??

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