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bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32
From: |
Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32 |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:13:25 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
>> Cc: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>, 7784@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:24:26 +0100
>>
>> One thing I noticed while experimenting with file-executable-p is that
>> it returns false for files with extensions listed in PATHEXT. For
>> instance, .JS is listed on one machine's PATHEXT but, after creating
>> foo.js, (file-executable-p "foo.js") returns nil.
>>
>> As those files are directly executable from the shell, maybe Emacs
>> should recognize them as executables as well?
>
> Patches for supporting PATHEXT are most welcome, TIA.
It might also be a good idea to merge the list used by is_exec in w32.c
with the list that is used as the initial value of exec-suffixes.
bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/05
bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32, Jason Rumney, 2011/01/05