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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:48:12 +0200
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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il>
To: "Chet Ramey" <chet AT nike DOT ins DOT cwru DOT edu>
Subject: Re: How to make cygwin/bash shell work in emacs
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	Ramey on Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:11:40 -0400)
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:11:40 -0400, Chet Ramey <chet AT nike DOT ins DOT cwru DOT edu> wrote:
> > 
> > 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")
> 
> 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.)
 
Emacs start "Non-login interactive shells" when you start a sub-shell.
(this is bash -i).
It start a "non-interactive" shell (i.e. commands interpreter) for any
external command and in this case it uses the BASH_ENV.
(this is bash command arg1 arg2 .....).

Ehud.


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