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Re: address@hidden: rcs2log]
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Juanma Barranquero |
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Re: address@hidden: rcs2log] |
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Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:43:06 +0100 |
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:39:53 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Why is it fragile?
Because you are executing programs that you don't control (what if
trying a sort.exe causes a crash or any other kind of problem), and
because probably it'd fail if I happen to modify the PATH afterwards.
If I have to manually configure a variable and after a while I change
the path I'm more prone to remember it that if Emacs somehow configured
it behind my back.
> This would require users to customize the variable. Without a proper
> customization, the relevant feature will be broken.
Sure. But we already have cases like these now, and they're resolved by
having -program variables. The first "find.exe" in my PATH is
C:\WINNT\system32\find.exe. Same for ftp and telnet. Ange-FTP didn't try
to find what was the "right" ftp, I manually configured
`ange-ftp-ftp-program'.
Having good defaults helps here.
/L/e/k/t/u
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Stefan Monnier, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log],
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Juanma Barranquero, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Richard Stallman, 2002/10/31
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Richard Stallman, 2002/10/30