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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-program-exists vs executable-find
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:22:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mx66zlz1.fsf@altern.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80aa29umso.fsf@somewhere.org> (Sebastien Vauban's message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:39:19 +0200")

Hi Sébastien,

"Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:

>> The name `org-program-exists' is actually misleading, it should be
>> `org-executable-call' instead, while still checking if the executable exists
>> before calling it.
>
> Nope, the name is not misleading. The documentation string is false -- what I
> hadn't noticed, btw.
>
> That function just checks if the executable can be found; it does _not_ call
> it afterward.

You're right, I just fixed the docstring.

> On Linux and Mac OS, it just calls "which + <program name>", no more...
> On Windows, it simply fails immediately (even if the program could be found).

If there is an equivalent of `which' on windows let me know, we can
generalize this function.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-18 12:46 org-program-exists vs executable-find Sebastien Vauban
2012-04-18 13:25 ` Bastien
2012-04-18 14:39   ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-04-20 11:22     ` Bastien [this message]
2012-04-20 20:24       ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-04-20 20:42         ` Martyn Jago
2012-04-21 10:13         ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-28 21:44         ` Bastien
2012-06-14 13:05         ` Giovanni Ridolfi

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