From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mks ksh and emacs Date: 24 Sep 2002 16:24:47 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3d90ef80@news.beasys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032910643 21962 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2002 23:37:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:37:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tzF4-0005i6-00 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 01:37:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17tzF7-0004th-00; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:37:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!isdnet!skynet.be!skynet.be!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 18 Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105273 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1827 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1827 >>>>> Neal Yin writes: > I am use emacs 21.2.1 with MKS toolkit 7.5 on Windows 2000. I'd > like emacs to use sh as it's shell, so in .emacs I added (setq > explicit-shell-file-name "sh"). The problem is I need to start a > interactive shell with "sh -L" not just plain "sh", how can I do > that? (setq explicit-shell-file-name "sh -L") doesn't work. It would appear that you do: (setq explicit-sh-args "-L") There may be other args that you need with this as well (like "-i"). -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA