GNU bug report logs - #20202
24.3; Comint mode sets a bad $EMACS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:46:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 20484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, 20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk
Subject: bug#20202: EMACS=t Joy and Happiness
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 09:16:16 +0300

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 15:03:56 -0700
> Cc: 20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
> 	20484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Bash 4.4 came out only in September 2016, and it's too soon to assume 
> it.

I agree, 1.5 years is too soon.  I think we need 5 years at least.

> How about this idea: At Emacs build time, we check whether Bash is 4.4 
> or later, and if so we use a term.el that assumes bash 4.4 or later. 
> Otherwise, we use a term.el that interrogates the shell dynamically for 
> whether it is shell and if so what its version number is, the first time 
> that Emacs runs a process under a shell.

The first part will only work if Emacs is used on the same system
where it is built, right?  Is that a good assumption, given all the
binary distributions?
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