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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/ielm.el | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |