Hi "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgw...@spammotel.com> writes:
> Hi Bastien, > > Bastien wrote: >> "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgw...@spammotel.com> writes: >> >>>> The name `org-program-exists' is actually misleading, it should be >>>> `org-executable-call' instead, while still checking if the executable >>>> exists before calling it. >>> >>> Nope, the name is not misleading. The documentation string is false -- what >>> I hadn't noticed, btw. >>> >>> That function just checks if the executable can be found; it does _not_ >>> call it afterward. >> >> You're right, I just fixed the docstring. >> >>> On Linux and Mac OS, it just calls "which + <program name>", no more... On >>> Windows, it simply fails immediately (even if the program could be found). >> >> If there is an equivalent of `which' on windows let me know, > > Not that I know, reason why I (must) have Cygwin... > >> we can generalize this function. > > Why not replacing it simply by `executable-find': I don't see what it adds to > it? I would not say so if it was some upper abstraction, but I do feel > they're simply the same. > > If not, the opposite should be done: replacing the 10 calls to > `executable-find' by calls to `org-program-exists'... > > Best regards, > Seb IIRC on Mac OS `which' is not guaranteed to work anyway, since by default the `which database' is not instantiated or maintained. I had to kick that off manually here to have use of `which'. Best, Martyn
