Subject: Re: bug#53739: 28.0.91; "C-x d" fails when "emacs -Q" starts on NetBSD with plan9/bin on head of PATH

From: Van Ly <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 13:05:27 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Po Lu wrote:

>
> It would be a great deal of trouble to support their version of ls (and
> indeed, their versions of many other common Unix utilities such as `rm'
> and `cp'), so I think the answer is simply "don't run Emacs with
> plan9/bin at the head of your PATH".
>

Maybe the user can have their cake and eat it.  What if Emacs ignores 
the PATH element containing plan9/bin and the shell environment 
outside Emacs is allowed to prefer plan9's commands?

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vl