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| author | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2020-08-21 16:15:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2020-08-21 16:15:18 +0200 |
| commit | 70964b9c6b8458a7529ab0eb5563321c65a43f4f (patch) | |
| tree | 94670b90f694fd79aaf2d98166c0c712f7095cd1 /src | |
| parent | 4a8d3d81cfc3e26dfb5eafd4af1c6a5a73fca8aa (diff) | |
| download | emacs-70964b9c6b8458a7529ab0eb5563321c65a43f4f.tar.gz | |
Mention `exec-path' in some process related doc strings
* src/callproc.c (Fcall_process_region):
(Fcall_process):
* src/process.c (Fmake_process): Mention `exec-path' in the doc
strings (bug#42704).
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/callproc.c | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/process.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/callproc.c b/src/callproc.c index 65c858393a9..e3346e2eabb 100644 --- a/src/callproc.c +++ b/src/callproc.c @@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ DESTINATION can also have the form (REAL-BUFFER STDERR-FILE); in that case, Fourth arg DISPLAY non-nil means redisplay buffer as output is inserted. Remaining arguments ARGS are strings passed as command arguments to PROGRAM. +If PROGRAM is not an absolute file name, `call-process' will look for +PROGRAM in `exec-path' (which is a list of directories). + If executable PROGRAM can't be found as an executable, `call-process' signals a Lisp error. `call-process' reports errors in execution of the program only through its return and output. @@ -1060,6 +1063,9 @@ Sixth arg DISPLAY non-nil means redisplay buffer as output is inserted. Remaining arguments ARGS are passed to PROGRAM at startup as command-line arguments. +If PROGRAM is not an absolute file name, `call-process-region' will +look for PROGRAM in `exec-path' (which is a list of directories). + If BUFFER is 0, `call-process-region' returns immediately with value nil. Otherwise it waits for PROGRAM to terminate and returns a numeric exit status or a signal description string. diff --git a/src/process.c b/src/process.c index 15634e4a8b0..3aa105ae342 100644 --- a/src/process.c +++ b/src/process.c @@ -1654,7 +1654,10 @@ you specify a filter function to handle the output. BUFFER may be also nil, meaning that this process is not associated with any buffer. :command COMMAND -- COMMAND is a list starting with the program file -name, followed by strings to give to the program as arguments. +name, followed by strings to give to the program as arguments. If the +program file name is not an absolute file name, `make-process' will +look for the program file name in `exec-path' (which is a list of +directories). :coding CODING -- If CODING is a symbol, it specifies the coding system used for both reading and writing for this process. If CODING |