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Re: Bug in shell.el: explicit-bash-args does not work for bash 1.x


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: Bug in shell.el: explicit-bash-args does not work for bash 1.x
Date: 30 Oct 2002 22:32:37 +0100
User-agent: 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.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk





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