GNU bug report logs - #42704
Documentation of call-process

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Reported by: Gregory Heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org>

Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 09:30:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org>
Cc: 42704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42704: Documentation of call-process
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:15:57 +0200

Gregory Heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org> writes:

> Indeed.  I still believe that adding the sentence "If PROGRAM is not
> an absolute file name, the variable exec-path contains a list of
> directories to search." in the docstring of call-process (and a
> similar sentence in the docstrings of make-process and
> call-process-region) would be useful.

Makes sense to me, so I've now added a sentence about exec-path to those
three doc strings.

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