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 10:51:26 +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 1232535051 21009 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2009 10:50:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:50:51 +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 11:52:03 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 1LPagj-0007AL-2n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:52:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPafR-0004Gj-TP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:50:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPaej-00047Q-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:49:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPaeg-00046n-Vp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:49:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60985 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPaeg-00046f-MC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:49:54 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47382 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 1LPaef-0001qK-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:49:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPaeb-00052l-Mi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:49:49 +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 10:49:49 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by vps203.linuxvps.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:49:49 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 44 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:ZFHo7HkhdvQ0h9qx87zBRdgjFg8= 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:61530 Archived-At: Quoth Barry Margolin : > In article , > Sebastian Tennant wrote: > >> Quoth Peter Dyballa : >> > Am 20.01.2009 um 10:09 schrieb Sebastian Tennant: >> > >> >> It's 'M-x shell-command' I'm thinking about. >> > >> > Forget it! Shell-command is not meant for interactive use as in a >> > shell with aliases and such comfort. >> >> But my aliases are so handy!!! I want them (without having to run an >> interactive shell), and Emacs can give them to me, I know it can :) > > Can you define them as functions instead of aliases? The issue was over instructing the shell to source my ~/.bashrc (which contains both aliases and functions). I mistakenly thought that the way to get a shell to read init files was to specify a login shell (bash -l -c ), but that isn't the way to do it, rather, you should force interactive behaviour with the '-i' switch (bash -i -c ). Do this and all your aliases and functions are to hand. Here are the two functions I posted to emacs.sources that force interactive shells and put all your aliases and function defs at your fingertips. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sources/3147 The previous post (3146) contains a little bit of explanation but don't use the code from 3146 or you'll break shell-command (slightly). If you have lots of aliases and functions you'd like to access via M-! you may like to rebind M-! to interactive-shell-command, like so: (global-set-key "M-!" 'interactive-shell-command) Sebastian