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bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp bl
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Michael Albinus |
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bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match |
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Sat, 02 Apr 2016 21:37:51 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Regardless, I would say the assumption that COMSPEC is always set
>> and so therefore if it fails it is okay to
>> assign nil to tramp-encoding-shell knowing that later on it will be
>> in a string-match is problematic in and of
>> itself.
>
> Tramp is designed to work with Emacs as released by the Emacs
> development team. That Emacs doesn't have this problem. I think it
> would be unreasonable for anyone to expect the Tramp maintainers to
> cater to arbitrary changes in the Emacs code or in how it is
> configured on Windows, let alone if you poke some addresses in the PE
> headers of the produced binary.
The Tramp maintainers could check, whether COMSPEC is set, and raise a
verbose warning in case it isn't. Refusing further work.
Shall I commit this to the emacs-25 branch, or to master?
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match, Jerry Asher, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match,
Michael Albinus <=
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match, Jerry Asher, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match, Michael Albinus, 2016/04/03
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- bug#23186: closed (Re: bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match), Jerry Asher, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: closed (Re: bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match), Jerry Asher, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: closed (Re: bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match), Jerry Asher, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: closed (Re: bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match), Michael Albinus, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/02
- bug#23186: 25.0.92; Tramp: Windows does not always set COMSPEC, tramp blows up in a string-match), Jerry Asher, 2016/04/02