Re: eshell-batch-file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 11:55:22 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> 
> On 6/8/2024 11:11 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Is eshell-batch-file supposed to work on MS-Windows?  Its
> > implementation seems to be full of Unix-isms, so maybe it isn't
> > supposed to work?  If it is supposed to work, can you describe its
> > internal workings, so I could take a look?
> 
> I think it should work on MS-Windows, although MS-Windows users would 
> need to configure things differently. (Users should be able to set up a 
> file association handler for ".esh" files that calls Emacs with with the 
> right arguments.)
> 
> If you do the following on the command line, do things work?
> 
>      echo "echo hello" > script.esh
>      emacs --batch -f eshell-batch-file script.esh
> 
> (It should just print "hello" and nothing else.)

It works.

> > The relevant test in the
> > test suite currently fails on MS-Windows, but I'm uncertain whether
> > it's because it expects a file with hash-bang to be executable by the
> > shell or for some more fundamental reasons.
> 
> Sorry about that. That test should probably be disabled on MS-Windows as 
> you've done. I've added a new test though that should hopefully pass on 
> all systems, including MS-Windows.

Thanks, it works, and I've now removed skip-unless from that test.