steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) (02/07/90)
In article <9002050846.AA01171@ccv.fr> pascal@ccvi.ccv.fr (Pascal Meheut) writes: > I'm using bash-1.04 and I think this a wonderful tool. ... Ditto. Finally i don't have to put up with the local MSDOS and VMS fanatics bragging about their command line editors! > Now, one question : it seems to me that bash don't suport the -i flag, to > use it as an interactive shell, but through pipes, for instances. (I'm trying > to add a shell-mode to Micro-emacs so I need this feature) Is there a good > reason for this ? > Pascal Meheut. > Mail addresse : pascal@ccv.fr I found it rather disconcerting when i switched from csh to bash (1.04) that GNU emacs (18.55) no longer displayed a prompt in "Shell: run" mode. GNU emacs appears to automatically use the -i option in an attempt to force "interactive" behavior when firing up the shell ("echo $-" prints "io"), but bash uses -i for another purpose altogether. There's a bug in there somewhere! :-) :-) Since both sh and csh appear to support the "-i == interactive" flag, perhaps bash should do so as well for compatibility. After all, we don't want those shells to have a capability that bash lacks, do we? :-) :-) :-) -- Stephen McConnel Summer Institute of Linguistics PHONE: 214-709-2418 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road UUCP: ...!{texbell|convex|utafll}!txsil!steve Dallas, TX 75236 Internet: steve@txsil.lonestar.org