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: phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 20484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20202: Considered Harmful 73d213: 'Comint, term, and compile new set Emacs'
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:03:51 +0300

> From: phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:55:02 +0100
> Cc: 20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 20484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> 
> 1) For bash, launch with -o emacs, or call set -o emacs after launch.
> 2) zsh, launch and call unsetopt zle.
> 3) For tcsh, EMACS=t only needs to be correct during init. So, EMACS=t,
> launch tcsh, set EMACS=what-ever-it-was-before.
> 4) Everything else -- move the "call-process" call to a single function
> which people can advice as they choose.

Thanks.  Such  solution, if it indeed works, could be OK for master,
but not for emacs-25.
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