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diff --git a/lisp/shell.el b/lisp/shell.el
index 51a0ffc4fe8..a78ab7f81ab 100644
--- a/lisp/shell.el
+++ b/lisp/shell.el
@@ -284,21 +284,9 @@ Value is a list of strings, which may be nil."
;; Note: There are no explicit references to the variable `explicit-bash-args'.
;; It is used implicitly by M-x shell when the interactive shell is `bash'.
(defcustom explicit-bash-args
- (let* ((prog (or (and (boundp 'explicit-shell-file-name) explicit-shell-file-name)
- (getenv "ESHELL") shell-file-name))
- (name (file-name-nondirectory prog)))
- ;; Tell bash not to use readline, except for bash 1.x which
- ;; doesn't grok --noediting. Bash 1.x has -nolineediting, but
- ;; process-send-eof cannot terminate bash if we use it.
- (if (and (not purify-flag)
- (equal name "bash")
- (file-executable-p prog)
- (string-match "bad option"
- (shell-command-to-string
- (concat (shell-quote-argument prog)
- " --noediting"))))
- '("-i")
- '("--noediting" "-i")))
+ ;; Tell bash not to use readline. It's safe to assume --noediting now,
+ ;; as it was introduced in 1996 in Bash version 2.
+ '("--noediting" "-i")
"Args passed to inferior shell by \\[shell], if the shell is bash.
Value is a list of strings, which may be nil."
:type '(repeat (string :tag "Argument"))