> On 16 Aug 2017, at 01:38, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > > Robert Ewald <robewald@gmx.net> writes: > >> Does the shell-file-name have to be bourne shell compatible? My >> understanding is that using "/bin/sh" requires a POSIX compatible shell, >> bash specific shell scripts should be invoked with e.g. /bin/bash. >> I believe a POSIX compatible shell is sufficient in this particular case. >> Of course, if shell-file-name is not POSIX compatible this line may not >> work. > > Yeah, I was sloppy. Hopefully POSIX compatibility is enough (if not we > can probably fix that). But as you note there's no guarantee > shell-file-name is POSIX compatible. > > d I did some research: apparently shell-file-name should be POSIX compatible, otherwise many plugins don't work. explicit-shell-file-name however can be set to fish or tcsh if you want to use that in M-x shell. https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/28647/how-do-i-change-the-default-shell-for-shell-command So I think the patch as submitted is good, please apply. Thanks. Robert. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch