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RE: very wierd commit from emacs (or ntemacs) problem
From: |
Chuck . Irvine |
Subject: |
RE: very wierd commit from emacs (or ntemacs) problem |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:57:22 -0500 |
Stephe,
Sorry. I'm not clear on your message. Are you suggesting a possible
solution to my problem, or are you saying that the (setenv "SHELL"
"bash") setting as I have it is correct? Thanks
Chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stephen.a.leake.1 [mailto:stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 2:46 PM
> To: eliz
> Cc: Chuck.Irvine; bug-gnu-emacs; ntemacs-users; stephen.a.leake.1
> Subject: Re: very wierd commit from emacs (or ntemacs) problem
>
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com wrote:
> >
> > > > I suspect that the problem is with quoting the log
> message that is
> > > > passed to CVS. Are you sure that Emacs invokes Bash as
> the shell?
> > > > What is your SHELL variable set to?
> > >
> > > Inside my .emacs, I set $SHELL to bash, i.e.:
> > > (setenv "SHELL" "bash")
> >
> > That might not do what you want: setenv doesn't change Emacs's own
> > environment, only the environment that is passed to subprocesses.
>
> That is what you need in this case; the vc lisp is spawning a shell
> under Emacs in which to run cvs.
>
> You might need to specify the full path in SHELL, but probably not.
>
> --
> -- Stephe
>
>