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Re: SHELL in shell.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: SHELL in shell.el |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:17:08 +0200 (IST) |
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:
> The difference between the old and the new code is that if someone
> modified the value of $SHELL inside Emacs, you will get the same
> complaints as with shell-file-name before the change.
>
> I don't think that is a significant problem.
> I doubt very many people set the SHELL envvar within Emacs.
You'd be surprised to know what Windows users sometimes do ;-)
IIRC, they do set SHELL inside Emacs, at least some of them. But it's
also plausible that shell-file-name is set more often, I simply don't
know.