Re: setevn PATH vs exec-path [was Re: Flyspell error]

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Xah Lee<xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:

> btw, on Windows emacsW23, it has cmd-shell. Is this particular to
> emacsW23 or is it in GNU Emacs's Windows branch?

w32shell.el (where cmd-shell lives) contains wrappers for the "shell"
function that comes with Emacs itself.

The purpose of it is to make it more easy to switch between uing cmd,
Cygwin, MSYS etc as the shell program in command shell. (The name is a
bit unfortunate. I did not know it was so hard to get additions like
this into Emacs so I choose something that could fit Emacs.)