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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:11:40 -0400
From: Chet Ramey <chet AT nike DOT ins DOT cwru DOT edu>
To: ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il
Subject: Re: How to make cygwin/bash shell work in emacs
Cc: radar AT cacheware DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Reply-To: chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu
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X-In-Reply-To:  Message from ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il of Tue, 2 Oct 2001 03:57:07 +0200 (id <200110020157 DOT DAA13431 AT linux.>)

> >From the Bash man page:

I don't know what version of the man page this is, but it's not recent.
The behavior of ENV has changed to conform to POSIX.2 since this was
written.

>        Non-login interactive shells:
>          On startup (subject to the -norc and -rcfile options):
>                if ~/.bashrc exists, source it.
> 
>        Non-interactive shells:
>          On startup:
>                if the environment variable ENV is non-null, expand
>                it and source the file it names, as if the command
>                        if [ "$ENV" ]; then . $ENV; fi
>                had been executed, but do not use PATH to search
>                for the pathname.  When not started in Posix mode, bash
>                looks for BASH_ENV before ENV.
> 
> 
> Emacs starts Bash as "Non-login interactive shells". To make thing
> easier I suggest you set "BASH_ENV" to "/etc/profile" in ~/.emacs:
>     (setenv "BASH_ENV" "/etc/profile")
> 
> [ This is really Bash/Cygwin problem not Emacs, so I cross post ]

I don't see how you can possibly expect this to do anything, since the
portion of the manual page you quoted says explicitly that BASH_ENV is
only interpreted by *non-interactive* shells, and  you claim that emacs
starts bash as a non-login *interactive* shell.

(I don't use emacs, so I don't know if your claim is correct.)


-- 
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( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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