On Wed 6/20/12 17:24 +0200 Corinna wrote: > On Jun 20 09:53, Tom Rodman wrote: > > On Wed 6/20/12 8:07 MDT Eric Blake wrote: > > > On 06/20/2012 07:20 AM, Tom Rodman wrote: > > > > > > > $ echo $SHELL > > > > /bin/bash > > > > $ bash -c 'echo SHELL: $SHELL' # does this prove SHELL is exported? > > > > SHELL: /bin/bash > > > > > > No. And in fact, bash does not export SHELL by default, but defaults to > > > defining SHELL as a shell-local variable. You have to explicitly export > > > it yourself if you want child processes to see it. > > > > OK. Thanks, good to know that. > > > > -- > > Still, not sure why I have to export the SHELL var to GNU screen > > now since in the past several years I have not done this. > > Recently I stopped using 'putty -ssh localhost' for my terminal, > > and I'm using 'rxvt' instead, ... > > Brr. Why don't you use mintty instead? rxvt is old, unmaintained, > and it doesn't support UTF-8.
Oh, I was afraid it might be deprecated, I had tried mintty in the last few weeks, but was unable to get 'WordChars' setting to work as well as rxvt's cutchars. I launch rxvt with a shell script using: font_sz=${1:-17} cutchars=$'\140'$'\042'$'\047''+-&()*,;<=>?@[]{|}/.:' # \140 == ` # \042 == " # \047 == ' # "Rxvt*cutchars" in ~/.Xdefaults ( usually a link to /etc/skel/.Xdefaults ) # but stopped working for me, 1st noticed not working in 2012 or 2011 exec rxvt \ -cutchars $cutchars \ -backspacekey $'\010' -geometry 100x33 \ +rv \ -bg black \ -fg white \ -fn "Lucida Console-$font_sz" \ -sr -sl 5000 \ -e /bin/bash --login I've been unable to get the equivalent of cutchars to work in mintty. Putty was good at that, but I stopped using putty because of the 'procps' hangs. -- Tom -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple