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

[Kim F. Storm]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> The following code returns the proper setting for bash 1.x and 2.x. 
> 
> I suppose it could be used as the initial value for explicit-bash-args.
> 
> 
> (let* ((prog (or (and (boundp 'explicit-shell-file-name) 
> explicit-shell-file-name)
>                (getenv "ESHELL") shell-file-name))
>        (name (file-name-nondirectory prog)))
>   (if (and (equal name "bash")
>          (file-executable-p prog)
>          (string-match "bad option"
>                        (shell-command-to-string (concat prog " 
> --noediting"))))
>       '("-i")
>     '("--noediting" "-i")))
> 

I added a check for (not purify-flag) to the above and installed it.
It works nicely on my GNU/Linux platforms (mixture of Bash 1.x and 2.x).

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