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Improve errors for missing shell file on Windows #2261
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chrisduerr commentedApr 21, 2019
In the #2261 PR the ConPTY errors have been improved to make it obvious why a shell could not be started. However, the WinPTY messages are unchanged and there currently is no output at all when spawning the WinPTY failed.
It should be made clear to the user that the shell could not be found when starting Alacritty with an invalid shell.
Based on the little research I've done, it seems like there's no place in Alacritty to catch this error and it's swallowed further down in the WinPTY dependency chain. Maybe @zacps knows something about this, but I'd assume that we might have to fix something in the
winpty-syscrate.