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(inferior-emacs-lisp-mode): Use hexl for the dummy process.
author Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
date Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:14:07 +0000
parents 7c181d033dae
children a604392198d7
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--- a/lisp/ielm.el	Sun Feb 24 09:14:41 2002 +0000
+++ b/lisp/ielm.el	Sun Feb 24 13:14:07 2002 +0000
@@ -459,7 +459,9 @@
 
   ;; 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