Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Wolfgang Jenkner <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 20:24:50 +0200
> Cc: Random832 <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden
> 
> On Thu, Oct 22 2015, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> > No.  Unfortunately, there's a long history of systems (hel-lo, GNU!)
> > with /bin/sh linked to a non-conforming program.  Weeding out all the
> > bashisms in Debian package management scripts took quite a bit of pain
> > and effort.
> 
> Also, a fact that is somewhat relevant to the present discussion is that
> emacs doesn't use /bin/sh by default:
> 
> $ echo $SHELL
> /usr/local/bin/bash
> $ emacs --batch -Q --eval '(message "%s" shell-file-name)'
> /usr/local/bin/bash

That's the documented behavior, see the User Manual.