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#7167
23.2; w32-shell-execute doc
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Reported by: Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic <at> gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:09:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 23.2
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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In `emacs -Q'
When executing describe function (C-c f on) w32-shell-execute I get the
following result:
w32-shell-execute is a built-in function in `C source code'.
[Missing arglist. Please make a bug report.]
Not documented.
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In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: ENU
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: cp1252
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
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font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
C-h f w 3 2 - s h e l l <tab> <tab> e <tab> <return>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Making completion list...
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
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e:/program-files/emacs-23.2/site-lisp/remember/remember hides
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> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:12:47 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com, sean.sieger <at> gmail.com, 7167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:15:55 +0200
> > Cc: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger <at> gmail.com>, 7167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > [Sean, I've Cc:ed you because you're doing binary tarballs now]
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 05:57, Christoph <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Juanma, let me know if I can help troubleshoot this.
> >
> > I think it is an issue with the binary distribution of Emacs 23.2 for
> > Windows, not with 23.2 per se, because I have my own build of it and
> > the problem is not present.
> >
> > Likely the fix will simply be to rebuild the official binary
> > distribution of 23.2.
>
> Not sure, because my binary, which I built myself, also has this
> problem.
>
> Will try to investigate tomorrow.
Found the problem. There's nothing wrong with the Windows build
system per se. The problem is that emacs-23.2 tarball comes with a
src/buildobj.h from a Unix system where it was tarred, which is
baaaaad, and not only on Windows. This causes Make not to create
src/buildobj.h as suitable for the actual build on the target
platform, and the rest is history.
I've just installed a fix in the emacs-23 branch (revno 100091 and a
followup change in 100092) to exclude this file from the tarball.
To fix this locally, just remove src/buildobj.h and rebuild Emacs.
While at that, I would suggest that this code in help-fns.el:
(let ((file (catch 'loop
(while t
(let ((pnt (search-forward (concat " " name "\n"))))
(re-search-backward " S\\(.*\\)")
(let ((file (match-string 1)))
(if (member file build-files)
(throw 'loop file)
(goto-char pnt))))))))
(if (string-match "^ns.*\\(\\.o\\|obj\\)\\'" file)
(setq file (replace-match ".m" t t file 1))
(if (string-match "\\.\\(o\\|obj\\)\\'" file)
(setq file (replace-match ".c" t t file))))
(if (string-match "\\.\\(c\\|m\\)\\'" file)
(concat "src/" file)
file)))))
be made smarter wrt the error message it displays when the function or
variable it looks for is found in etc/DOC, but the file in which it is
defined is not in build-files. (This happens when you click or type
RET on the link to the source file where the function is defined.)
Currently, the error message, which comes from search-forward, is
quite cryptic for a naive user:
Search failed: "^_Fw32-shell-execute
"
It should at least mention the fact that the problem could be with
build-files, or, better, say that w32-shell-execute's definition is in
a file that is not in build-files. Volunteers are welcome to make
this improvement.
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