Re: Emacs Environment Variables

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 24.11.2007 um 13:48 schrieb Ismael Valladolid Torres:

> I am afraid he means running emacs from an icon in its window manager
> menu. Then it doesn't honor .bashrc, as it wasn't run from a bash
> session.

I did not understand the message this way, although I though of login  
and non-login interactive sessions.

>
> If running Debian or Ubuntu he could move important env definitions
> into /etc/environment. I am sure there are ways to do this on Fedora
> or Mandriva systems.


There is also /etc/profile which is read by bash if it's launched as  
a login shell. If a user does not have ~/.profile, then a bash login  
shell reads ~/.bash_login. When this file sets important environment  
variables like LANG or LC_CTYPE, then the user's environment will  
have set these values from login time at the login screen. All other  
processes will inherit from this environment, including X, will which  
pass this on to all clients launched via menu entries – and maybe  
also via icons on the desktop or in the dock (but I am guessing, I'm  
mostly on Mac OS X or Solaris with OpenWindows). ~/.bashrc would not  
need to contain that many basic settings if it can "delegate" some to  
~/.bash_login or ~/.profile.

IMO bash is a bit too complicated to be used as a user's default shell.

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