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authorJason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>2002-02-24 13:14:07 +0000
committerJason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>2002-02-24 13:14:07 +0000
commit33a651761665033af9c2c82240a10ab9199fa752 (patch)
tree0397a31a8c854db2ee55e1f11cddc8d41e331351 /lisp/ielm.el
parent42b4edc55073c042bb4fc39e0a2b05d19c241283 (diff)
downloademacs-33a651761665033af9c2c82240a10ab9199fa752.tar.gz
(inferior-emacs-lisp-mode): Use hexl for the dummy process.
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diff --git a/lisp/ielm.el b/lisp/ielm.el
index 8194a653e24..5db57a52b59 100644
--- a/lisp/ielm.el
+++ b/lisp/ielm.el
@@ -459,7 +459,9 @@ Customised bindings may be defined in `ielm-map', which currently contains:
;; A dummy process to keep comint happy. It will never get any input
(if (comint-check-proc (current-buffer)) nil
- (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "cat")
+ ;; Was cat, but on non-Unix platforms that might not exist, so
+ ;; use hexl instead, which is part of the Emacs distribution.
+ (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "hexl")
(process-kill-without-query (ielm-process))
(goto-char (point-max))
;; Add a silly header