Re: Interactive shell commands

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Chetan <address@hidden>:
> Sebastian Tennant <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ignore this entire thread!
>>
>> If you want your shell aliases and functions to be accessible via 'M-!'
>> (shell-command) then use this two-line solution:
>>
>>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/61529
>>
>> Thanks to Michael Heerdegen for pointing this out.
>>
>> Sebastian
>
> This has the undesirable effect on shell scripts written by someone
> else and possibly your own.  There is obviously a reason why aliases
> are not loaded by default in non-interactive shells, but they can be
> enabled if one is prepared to deal with it.

Indeed, and Peter Dyballa made the same point on gmane.emacs.help:

 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/61533

I argue that as BASH_ENV is set in ~/.emacs, and not elsewhere, it can
only potentially cause problems with scripts/commands called/issued from
inside Emacs, i.e., cron/at jobs are unaffected.

But yes, if people are at all worried they should use my functions
(interactive-shell-command and asynchronous-interactive-shell-command)
rather than setting BASH_ENV.

Sebastian