GNU bug report logs - #23186
25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jerry Asher <ja2038 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 16:08:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.92

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jerry Asher <ja2038 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 23186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 23:29:56 +0300
> From: Jerry Asher <ja2038 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:21:30 -0700
> Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, 23186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Since the two of you have decided that a verbose warning is all that is required to satisfy the problems THESE
> people are reporting and have reported for years, since you have decided that assigning a guaranteed bad
> value is better than setting a mostly correct value,
> 
> https://www.google.com/search?q=emacs+cmd.exe+tramp-encoding-shell+string-match
> 
> 
> Then I gather I was correct in my earliest decision that working with you was an exercise in futility and
> frustration.

Only if you have decided that in advance.  Because you are talking to
people who accept, analyze, and solve bugs all the time, you can see
that in the Emacs commit log.




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