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: Re: Shell aliases as shell-commands Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:26:06 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232551533 14650 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2009 15:25:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:25:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 21 16:26:45 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 1LPeyS-0002hR-5h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:26:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPexA-0005J4-OI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPewV-0005Cm-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPewT-0005CZ-D3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:24:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39827 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPewT-0005CW-3P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:24:33 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54974 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 1LPewS-0001jI-Ny for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:24:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPewP-0000lB-EY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:24:29 +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 ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:24:29 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by vps203.linuxvps.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:24:29 +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:zIjQq9/CbGmQPuktFmnkhdI56So= 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:61531 Archived-At: Quoth Michael Heerdegen : > It is possible to use your aliases [and functions] with M-x > shell-command, I do it all the time. Do the following: > > * in you bash config (.bashrc): shopt -s -q expand_aliases > This makes bash aliases work in non-interactive bashs. > > * In your emacs config (.emacs): (setenv "BASH_ENV" "~/.bashrc") > This tells emacs that non-interactive bash subprocesses should > load .bashrc. Damn that's a good tip. Guess I should tell the folks over at emacs.sources... there was me thinking I'd written something useful! Sebastian