Re: eshell - win32 - executable files

[matt]

John Wiegley wrote:
> > > > > > 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

Thanks John. How do I do that? What I've done is not working. I found 
'eshell-binary-suffixes' in esh-ext.el, looks like this:

        (defcustom eshell-binary-suffixes
          (if (eshell-under-windows-p)
              '(".exe" ".com" ".bat" ".cmd" "")
           '(""))
        "*A list of suffixes used when searching for executable files."

I added ".pl" to the list. I tried load-file, load-library, and 
emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load. No luck. Is there somewhere else I 
should be setting this?

Thanks -- Matt

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