need for a shell-mode-post-hook ?

[Matthew Kennedy <mbkennedy@austin.rr.com>]

My ~/.emacs_bash contains the following:

,----[ .emacs_bash ]
|
| PS1='\u@\h \W \$ '
`----

When I start shell with M-x shell RET, I get several prompts across
the top of the buffer.  It looks pretty tacky to me.  So I thought of
adding "clear" to the end of ~/.emacs_bash, however since its not
terminal-connected, clear has no effect (I think?).

So I'm wondering if there is a good case for a kind of
shell-mode-post-hook that would allow a hook *after* the start file
(~/.emacs_bash) is sent to the bash process via. comint.  What I am
getting at is something like this:

        (add-hook 'shell-mode-post-hook '(erase-buffer))

(followed possibly by sending a single, initial RET to the bash
process to force the prompt to show).

Perhaps there's an alternate way to achieve this? (as opposed to
editing my shell.el in the site-wide emacs lisp/ dir).

Matt

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Matthew Kennedy