Invisible wrote:
> The really Fun Stuff is things like ported Linux programs that assume
> that your shell is named /bin/sh and so on. (The Emacs FAQ says that if
> you try to open a shell using Emacs on Windows, it bombs for this very
> reason.) Really, Windows is very, *very* different to Unix, and just
> recompiling the source code is insufficient to fix that.

Vim sometimes runs whatever is in $SHELL and expects it to understand Bourne
shell syntax. My interactive shell has quite different syntax... so it
bombs.

Even in the Vim mailing list that was compared to "running $EDITOR and
expecting it to understand Emacs keystrokes".

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