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Re: Bug in shell.el: explicit-bash-args does not work for bash 1.x
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: Bug in shell.el: explicit-bash-args does not work for bash 1.x |
Date: |
30 Oct 2002 22:32:37 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I must say I don't like the idea of running a program when loadng
> > a .el file. It's already done at various places, tho.
>
> Yes. How about starting bash with one set of args, if that fails try
> the other set of args? I think it's not much of a problem to start
> bash twice instead of once (if the first try fails).
It could be done, but as proposed, this requires special treatment
of bash in M-x shell.
Maybe we could have explicit-SHELL-args-2 which is an alternate
set of args to use in case the shell fails to start with the
args provided in explicit-SHELL-args.
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk