From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: changing default shell Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:09:16 -0700 Message-ID: <39r41gF559egcU1@individual.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110990112 7997 80.91.229.2 (16 Mar 2005 16:21:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 17:21:51 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBb6U-0003CZ-NY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:10:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbMb-0003wS-BY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:27:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net mC90oWwqrCYH2nmsY9FlHApeoG9o1OqZTQy260PQ+0611TDt8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129317 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24871 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24871 Justin wrote: > I stopped using emacs for awhile and it seems I forgot a few things. > Before, I remembered typing M-x to enter the name of a function which > would allow me to modify certain environment variables for emacs. I'd > enter the name of the function, hit enter, then emacs would ask for the > variable name then a new buffer would open which would show the current > value and allow me to graphically modify it. This buffer would also > provide more information about the variable itself. If you mean environment variables per se, M-x setenv. If you mean options specific to Emacs, M-x customize-variable. > My end goal is to change the default shell to bash. ,----[ C-h v shell-file-name RET ] | shell-file-name's value is "/bin/ksh" | | Documentation: | *File name to load inferior shells from. | Initialized from the SHELL environment variable. | | You can customize this variable. `---- -- Kevin Rodgers