From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Environment Variables Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:25:18 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87ejeezvsh.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <7e3068b0-defa-4b37-9092-182b521f5f50@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <3568102A-B060-4D1F-B7B5-7944386B07A9@Web.DE> <20071124124821.GA5409@ono.com> <1CF4E827-71FC-4CEB-813C-2C561273681B@Web.DE> <85ve7rvbn3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195972990 29330 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2007 06:43:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:43:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 25 07:43:18 2007 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 1IwBD4-0003rB-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:43:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwBCp-0001Aa-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:43:03 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:muo0h1Ivj0dgNTjeREKO0wuDUlg= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 27 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154062 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:49494 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Ismael Valladolid Torres writes: > >> Peter Dyballa escribe: >>> IMO bash is a bit too complicated to be used as a user's default shell. >> >> Ubuntu people also thought this way. > > Huh? I don't see that. Ubuntu defaults to a different /bin/sh, but > that is the _scripting_ default shell, not the user default shell. > On my debian system /bin/sh is just a symbolic link to /bin/bash. When you invoke bash as sh, it reverts to 'traditional' sh behavior and disables bash specific add-ons. the 'real' sh executables I've seen are usually light-weight stripped down shells suitable for rescue disks etc, where you probably want statically linked small footprint stuff - but its still the basic sh shell that I believe you will find on every GNU Linux and from my limited experience Unix system. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au