From: Daniel <daniel@warum-ada.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using bash aliases with auctex
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:39:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45AF86A5.5050402@warum-ada.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1169124292.688929.113340@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Martin wrote:
>
> On Jan 17, 10:40 am, "Martin" <lovesl...@frustratedhousewives.zzn.com>
> wrote:
>> I'm having problems getting emacs to use my bash aliases. Specifically,
>> when running auctex's view command on a latex buffer, xdvi gets called
>> with default arguments, instead of my xdvi alias that all bash shells
>> use.
>
> I now use .Xresources settings to get xdvi to behave like I want, so
> the original problem is solved. It would still be interesting to know
> how emacs reads aliases, though.
Hi Martin,
I don't think it's Emacs' fault at all. If started
non-interactively, bash doesn't do any alias expansion. I believe
you could try bash-functions instead (better than aliases anyway)
or maybe call bash with the -i switch.
Have fun
----Daniel
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2007-01-17 9:40 Using bash aliases with auctex Martin
2007-01-18 12:44 ` Martin
2007-01-18 14:39 ` Daniel [this message]
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