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bug#20484: EMACS=t Joy and Happiness
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20484: EMACS=t Joy and Happiness |
Date: |
Fri, 25 May 2018 09:16:16 +0300 |
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 15:03:56 -0700
> Cc: 20202@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> 20484@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Bash 4.4 came out only in September 2016, and it's too soon to assume
> it.
I agree, 1.5 years is too soon. I think we need 5 years at least.
> How about this idea: At Emacs build time, we check whether Bash is 4.4
> or later, and if so we use a term.el that assumes bash 4.4 or later.
> Otherwise, we use a term.el that interrogates the shell dynamically for
> whether it is shell and if so what its version number is, the first time
> that Emacs runs a process under a shell.
The first part will only work if Emacs is used on the same system
where it is built, right? Is that a good assumption, given all the
binary distributions?