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From: mcgill-vision!icule!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Francois Pinard)
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Subject: SHELL vs ESHELL, a workaround
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Date: 12 Feb 90 13:07:23 GMT
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In GNU Emacs 18.54.2 of Sat Feb 10 1990 on icule (usg-unix-v)

For my previous message about SHELL vs ESHELL with suspend-emacs where
there is no job control, I have a satisfactory workaround.

suspend-emacs looks directly at the SHELL environment variable, while
shell-command and shell-command-on-region looks only indirectly to it
through the elisp variable shell-file-name, which itself gets
initialized after the SHELL environment variable.

It is sufficient to change the value of shell-file-name in the .emacs
file.  So, the selected shells will be:

	suspend-emacs		from SHELL (set in .bash_login)
	shell			from ESHELL (set in .bash_login)
	shell-command		from shell-file-name (set in .emacs)

-- 
Franc,ois Pinard                                    pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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