Re: On prompt in shell mode

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

David Hansen wrote:

> Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 
>> On Cygwin, it seems that only the 'else' branch is followed. Indeed using
>>
>> if [ "x$EMACS" = xt ]; then
>> # set up your prompt for M-x shell.
>> PS1='OK1> '
>> else
>> # fancy prompt for real terminals.
>> PS1='OK2> '
>> fi
> 
> What shell do you use?  The brackets may be a bash extension.  You can
> try: if test "x$EMACS" = xt; then ...

I think the cause is this: on Cygwin .bashrc is 'executed by bash for
login shells', instead on Linux it is 'executed by bash for NON login
shells'! and I think M-x shell executes a NON-login shell, i.e. it does
not execute .bashrc!

This seems to be confirmed by

    M-x shell
    OK2> . ~/.bashrc
    OK1>

i.e. the prompt I ask for Emacs M-x shell!

       Angelo