;;; esh-ext.el --- commands external to Eshell -*- lexical-binding:t -*-
-;; Copyright (C) 1999-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1999-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
:type '(repeat string)
:group 'eshell-ext)
-(defcustom eshell-force-execution nil
- "If non-nil, try to execute binary files regardless of permissions.
+(defcustom eshell-force-execution
+ (not (null (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos))))
+ "If non-nil, try to execute files regardless of execute permissions.
This can be useful on systems like Windows, where the operating system
-doesn't happen to honor the permission bits in certain cases; or in
-cases where you want to associate an interpreter with a particular
-kind of script file, but the language won't let you but a '#!'
-interpreter line in the file, and you don't want to make it executable
-since nothing else but Eshell will be able to understand
+doesn't support the execution bit for shell scripts; or in cases where
+you want to associate an interpreter with a particular kind of script
+file, but the language won't let you but a `#!' interpreter line in
+the file, and you don't want to make it executable since nothing else
+but Eshell will be able to understand
`eshell-interpreter-alist'."
:type 'boolean
:group 'eshell-ext)
name
(let ((list (eshell-parse-colon-path eshell-path-env))
suffixes n1 n2 file)
+ (if (eshell-under-windows-p)
+ (push "." list))
(while list
(setq n1 (concat (car list) name))
(setq suffixes eshell-binary-suffixes)