> >From the Bash man page: I don't know what version of the man page this is, but it's not recent. The behavior of ENV has changed to conform to POSIX.2 since this was written.
> Non-login interactive shells: > On startup (subject to the -norc and -rcfile options): > if ~/.bashrc exists, source it. > > Non-interactive shells: > On startup: > if the environment variable ENV is non-null, expand > it and source the file it names, as if the command > if [ "$ENV" ]; then . $ENV; fi > had been executed, but do not use PATH to search > for the pathname. When not started in Posix mode, bash > looks for BASH_ENV before ENV. > > > Emacs starts Bash as "Non-login interactive shells". To make thing > easier I suggest you set "BASH_ENV" to "/etc/profile" in ~/.emacs: > (setenv "BASH_ENV" "/etc/profile") > > [ This is really Bash/Cygwin problem not Emacs, so I cross post ] I don't see how you can possibly expect this to do anything, since the portion of the manual page you quoted says explicitly that BASH_ENV is only interpreted by *non-interactive* shells, and you claim that emacs starts bash as a non-login *interactive* shell. (I don't use emacs, so I don't know if your claim is correct.) -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet) Chet Ramey, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
