Lennart Borgman wrote:
Why not set (buffer-locally) a different variable (such as
"shell-uses-backslashes") when starting the inferior process? That
seems
more inline with what we usually do, rather than make a global variable
buffer-local because we later (re)compute something that depends on the
value the global variable had when the buffer was created.
Because we must check that value with for example
w32-shell-dos-semantics.
Eh, that was a bad argument from me. (My brain just told me that it
would not exist in w32-shell-dos-semantics, but that is wrong. In elisp.)
Yes, we could do it the way you propose and check for the existence of
this variable in w32-shell-dos-semantics. If it does not exist then we
have an error (because there can only be a shell in a buffer and then
this variable should be set). I think that is a clear advantage.
But maybe it is better to still use the value of shell-file-name so the
semantics for the backslash choice still is in w32-shell-dos-semantics?
I think so.
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