From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: changing default shell Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:17:47 GMT Organization: Aliant Internet Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110986902 26691 80.91.229.2 (16 Mar 2005 15:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 16:28:22 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBaIt-0004a4-C9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:19:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBaYz-0006zu-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:36:01 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.34.163.215 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net Original-X-Trace: ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca 1110986267 156.34.163.215 (Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:17:47 AST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:17:47 AST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129315 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24869 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24869 Hi, I stopped using emacs for awhile and it seems I forgot a few things. Before, I remembered typing M-x to enter the name of a function which would allow me to modify certain environment variables for emacs. I'd enter the name of the function, hit enter, then emacs would ask for the variable name then a new buffer would open which would show the current value and allow me to graphically modify it. This buffer would also provide more information about the variable itself. My end goal is to change the default shell to bash. Thanks, -Justin