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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:55:52 +0100
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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] shell for wins in p9p acme
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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
>
>