Subject: bug#47991: 28.0.50; inconsistency between async-shell-command and shell-command

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:50:59 +0300

> From: Zhiwei Chen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:38:10 +0800
> 
> I'm curious about the reason why it's a feature. Why the synchronous
> `shell-command' should be in `fundamental-mode' while the async doesn't.

I don't know, it's been that way since 1995.  Maybe Richard remembers.