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"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:

>>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Kennedy <mbkennedy@austin.rr.com> writes:
>>         (add-hook 'shell-mode-post-hook '(erase-buffer))
>
> That's difficult because the shell buffer is asynchronous, so
> Emacs doesn't know when the shell's initialization is done.
>
> Tramp has to deal with the problem and it's pretty ugly, but maybe
> you can convince Kai to tell you how to reuse that ugly code for
> this other case ?

Tramp just looks for a shell prompt...

But maybe Matthew could change his ~/.emacs_bash to produce less
output?  For example, maybe it works to put all commands on one
(virtual) line by doing things like

    command1; \
    command2; \
    ...

in ~/.emacs_bash.
-- 
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