Re: eshell - win32 - executable files

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> On Sat Jan 18, matt writes:

> This may be something that I need to do in the Windows registry,
> but...  How can I specify which files are executable. On a windows
> system there are the normal ones like .exe, .bat, .com, etc. What I
> want to do is to tell emacs that another type of file is
> executable, so that I can just type the filename and have it
> execute like any other command. Specifically, a perl script. I want
> to be able to execute say "myscript.pl" without having to type:
> perl path_to_script/myscript.pl. I have the file association set in
> explorer, and the path to the script is in my path. I can execute
> it in cmd.exe by typing myscript.pl, but not in eshell.

> Any ideas?

Configure the variable `eshell-binary-suffixes'.

John