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From: jcgs@harlqn.UUCP (John Sturdy)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: setenv in GNU Emacs
Message-ID: <1211@harlqn.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 88 08:34:00 GMT
References: <3159@hermes.ai.mit.edu>
Reply-To: jcgs@uk.co.harlqn (John Sturdy)
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In article <3159@hermes.ai.mit.edu> mly-wh@wheaties.ai.mit.edu.UUCP writes:
>possible to use Emacs as one's login shell.  (One actually needs to
>run a small trampoline program to set up the TERMinal-type information
>for Emacs.]
I have used emacs as my login shell (on BSD 4.2) without needing this - I'm
not sure what found the TERM information for me! But be sure to set
shell-file-name and explicit-shell-file-name to a conventional shell, otherwise
M-x compile etc will try to use EMACS as the shell!
__John
(jcgs@uk.co.harlqn)