Hi all, At present customisation of the variable ob-babel-shell-names in ob-shell.el doesn't work properly. You can actually change its value and save the customisation, but the org-babel-execute:<name> functions get created for the hard coded value of the variable not the customised value.
The following patch should fix it: ---------------snip------------ *** ob-shell.el.old 2016-07-22 20:43:43.190100908 +0100 --- ob-shell.el 2016-07-22 22:55:28.730037538 +0100 *************** *** 42,60 **** (defcustom org-babel-shell-names '("sh" "bash" "csh" "ash" "dash" "ksh" "mksh" "posh") ! "List of names of shell supported by babel shell code blocks." :group 'org-babel ! :type 'string ! :initialize (lambda (symbol value) ! (set-default symbol (second value)) (mapc (lambda (name) (eval `(defun ,(intern (concat "org-babel-execute:" name)) (body params) ,(format "Execute a block of %s commands with Babel." name) (let ((shell-file-name ,name)) (org-babel-execute:shell body params))))) ! (second value)))) (defun org-babel-execute:shell (body params) "Execute a block of Shell commands with Babel. --- 42,61 ---- (defcustom org-babel-shell-names '("sh" "bash" "csh" "ash" "dash" "ksh" "mksh" "posh") ! "List of names of shell supported by babel shell code blocks. ! Changing this variable outside the Customize interface has no effect." :group 'org-babel ! :type '(repeat string) ! :set (lambda (symbol value) ! (set-default symbol value) (mapc (lambda (name) (eval `(defun ,(intern (concat "org-babel-execute:" name)) (body params) ,(format "Execute a block of %s commands with Babel." name) (let ((shell-file-name ,name)) (org-babel-execute:shell body params))))) ! value))) (defun org-babel-execute:shell (body params) "Execute a block of Shell commands with Babel. -----------------------snip---------- I am using Org version 8.3.5 in Emacs 25.1.50.1. Cheers, Bernard -- Your fortune cookie for today: Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins ** Fortune cookies are brought to you by GNU/Linux "fortunes" **