Clément Pit-Claudel <[email protected]> writes: > Hi all,
Hi Clément, > tramp-find-executable says this: > > "Searches for PROGNAME in $PATH and all directories mentioned in DIRLIST. > […] > Returns the absolute file name of PROGNAME, if found, and nil otherwise. […]" > > But when a program in in the PATH, tramp returns the program name > prefixed with a backslash instead: > > (tramp-find-executable "sh") > ⇒ "\\sh" The reason behind is to suppress aliases for the commands. There were problems in the past, when somebody has aliased for example "ls". Of course, one could send "unalias -a" at the very beginning, but this might be annoying for users who want to use their aliases in interactive shells. > This wouldn't be much of an issue, except for the fact that this > syntax isn't compatible with tramp-sh-process-file-handler (it quotes > the program name). Which one is right? The docs, or the behavior (I'd > vote for fixing the behavior :) Do you have an example for this? > (Btw, is that check with `which \%s | wc -w` right? Wouldn't it break > if the program can be found in a directory that contains a space?) Yes, this could be a problem. Do you expect to happen this in real life? > Another doc bug: > > tramp-tramp-file-p says: > > "Return t if NAME is a string with Tramp file name syntax." > > but it returns an int, not t. Maybe it should use string-match-p > instead of string-match? string-match-p didn't exist, when this function was written aeons ago. And it also returns a natnum. I've fixed this. Committed to the Tramp and Emacs (branch emacs-26) repositories. > Thanks! > Clément. Best regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
