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29.2.50; comint-pager doesn't affect async-shell-command

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: 72426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72426: 29.2.50; comint-pager doesn't affect async-shell-command
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 08:48:07 +0300

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 14:35:25 -0400
> 
> 
> 1. PAGER=less emacs -Q
> 2. (setq comint-pager "cat")
> 3. (async-shell-command "echo $PAGER")
> 4. Observe "less" rather than "cat".
> 
> I intended async-shell-command to also be affected when I added
> comint-pager; a patch to fix this will follow.

Thanks, I don't think this is right: comint stuff should not affect
lower-level primitives, it should only affect comint and its callers.

Lisp programs that use async-shell-command can arrange for
process-environment to have PAGER=SOMETHING as they see fit.

So I don't think we should install your patch.

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