From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Cc: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [babel] how to pass data to gnuplot from another block
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:30:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbysahv0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmia9g46agl.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> (Greg Troxel's message of "Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:23:54 -0500")
Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:
> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Just an fyi: I had to set org-babel-sh-command to "bash" for this to
>>> work. Why is "sh" the default value of this variable?
>>>
>>
>> I think sh is more portable, but I guess almost any system should have
>> bash as well, I've just changed this default to bash.
>
> (Assuming you mean that you changed the default in the org sources, not
> in your config files.)
>
> Please don't, at least without discussion of the consequences of adding
> a dependency that is beyond POSIX.. sh is specified by posix, and bash
> is a) sometimes not present and b) behaves differently than as specified
> by POSIX, leading people to write nonportable code.
>
> If someone wants to run bash explicitly, it makes sense to have a bash
> language block that they can use. But the sh language block should be
> sh. The real point is that bash is a different language.
I understand your point, but in reality I doubt there are many systems
on which people use Org-mode with code blocks and on which sh is
available but no bash is installed.
Bash is the new normal shell and I would argue is what most users expect
from a shell code block. E.g., the default value of `shell-file-name'
used by M-x shell is "/bin/bash".
It is possible to explicitly set shell code blocks to use sh.
Best,
--
Eric Schulte
https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
PGP: 0x614CA05D
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-13 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-22 9:57 [babel] how to pass data to gnuplot from another block Eric S Fraga
2013-11-22 15:00 ` Eric Schulte
2013-11-22 17:27 ` Nick Dokos
2013-11-23 16:15 ` Eric Schulte
2013-12-13 15:23 ` Greg Troxel
2013-12-13 15:30 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2013-12-13 15:48 ` Greg Troxel
2013-12-13 16:20 ` Eric Schulte
2013-12-13 17:13 ` Eric Schulte
2013-12-13 19:32 ` Nick Dokos
2013-12-13 22:40 ` Achim Gratz
2013-12-13 23:18 ` Eric Schulte
2013-12-14 10:21 ` Achim Gratz
2013-12-13 18:38 ` Greg Troxel
2013-12-13 19:08 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-12-13 16:32 ` Achim Gratz
2013-12-05 7:35 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-12-05 18:29 ` Eric Schulte
2013-12-05 19:59 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-12-06 2:06 ` Eric Schulte
2013-12-06 11:59 ` Eric S Fraga
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