[9fans] shell for wins in p9p acme

[9fans] shell for wins in p9p acme

[Mathieu Lonjaret]

Hi,

what's the best solution if I want all the wins I open in acme to
automatically have rc as a shell (with -l, so that my lib/profile has
been read too), while still keeping bash as my SHELL when I'm out of
acme, for various reasons.
So far I simply have a script/launcher for acme that exports the SHELL
to rc before starting acme, but I still have to source lib/profile
everytime I open a new win, which is a bit annoying.

Of course I could change src/cmd/9term/rcstart.c, but if there's a
less intrusive solution I'd like to hear it please.

Cheers,
Mathieu

Re: [9fans] shell for wins in p9p acme

[roger peppe]

why do you want to source lib/profile every time you open a new win?
it's conventional to source it only once, and then rely on inherited
environment variables.

anyway, if you really wanted to do that, you could just
make a script, say rc-l,

#!/bin/rc
exec rc -l $*

and set SHELL=rc-l


On 11 August 2011 09:39, Mathieu Lonjaret <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what's the best solution if I want all the wins I open in acme to
> automatically have rc as a shell (with -l, so that my lib/profile has
> been read too), while still keeping bash as my SHELL when I'm out of
> acme, for various reasons.
> So far I simply have a script/launcher for acme that exports the SHELL
> to rc before starting acme, but I still have to source lib/profile
> everytime I open a new win, which is a bit annoying.
>
> Of course I could change src/cmd/9term/rcstart.c, but if there's a
> less intrusive solution I'd like to hear it please.
>
> Cheers,
> Mathieu
>
>