RE: very wierd commit from emacs (or ntemacs) problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

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.

I suggest to set SHELL outside Emacs, and make sure it points to the
Bash's full absolute file name.

Alternatively, set the variable explicit-shell-file-name to Bash's
absolute file name, I think this should have the same effect.