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: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:07:32 +0000 Message-ID: <1vuytkff.fsf@vps203.linuxvps.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232442406 4550 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2009 09:06:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:06:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 20 10:07:59 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 1LPCaA-0006Vv-Ux for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:07:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPCYt-00036v-RQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:06:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPCYZ-00036q-QR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:05:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPCYX-00036d-SK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:05:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56500 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPCYX-00036a-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:05:57 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59218 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 1LPCYX-0001dA-5B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:05:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPCYW-0002oW-I7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:05:56 +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 ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:05:56 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by vps203.linuxvps.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:05:56 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 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:eBUEzY7N+cSOLz/8/9QJElDF2pQ= 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:61488 Archived-At: Quoth Chetan : >> I thought it would be trivial to implement a 'M-x alias' function >> that would make aliases defined in my ~/.bashrc available to >> 'M-x >> shell-command' calls > I have a .bash_aliases that I load from .bashrc, so have also used > . ~/.bash_aliases ; myalias Really? Doesn't work for me. -- *scratch* buffer -- (shell-command ". ~/.bashrc; ll") -| /bin/bash: ll: command not found => 127 -- end of buffer -- yet the alias 'll' is defined in my ~/.bashrc, like so: alias ll="ls -l" I also get the same result interactively. M-x shell-command RET . ~/.bashrc; ll RET Could you provide more detail as to how you access your aliases? Sebastian