From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Shell aliases as shell-commands Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:11:01 +0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232399439 22671 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2009 21:10:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:10:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 22:11:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LP1Oy-0004L2-OG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:11:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LP1Nh-0001Mk-Hn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:10:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LP1NJ-0001JR-R0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:09:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LP1NJ-0001IX-9w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:09:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60519 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LP1NJ-0001IH-6Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:09:37 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59267 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LP1NI-00014I-Nu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:09:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LP1N9-0002DW-Ak for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:09:27 +0000 Original-Received: from vps203.linuxvps.org ([91.186.7.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:09:27 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by vps203.linuxvps.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:09:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: vps203.linuxvps.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LQyc/jibGeuG4+XMalieyCh6RQE= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61479 Archived-At: Hi all, I thought it would be trivial to implement a 'M-x alias' function that would make aliases defined in one's ~/.bashrc available to 'M-x shell-command' calls, but it's proving to be lot trickier than I thought. Does anyone know of an existing extension that provides this kind of functionality? Any tips/pointers/suggestions much appreciated. Regards, Sebastian