[h-e-w] Windows 2000 Pro / bash shell solved

[Jeff Rancier]

Hello.

I had a different version of shell.el in my load-path.  The only difference
was in the function shell(), the "-i" was missing and caused bash (or
something) to fail.  Can anyone shed any light on this?

(defun shell ()
  (interactive)
  (if (not (comint-check-proc "*shell*"))
      (let* ((prog (or explicit-shell-file-name
                       (getenv "ESHELL")
                       (getenv "SHELL")
                       "/bin/sh"))
             (name (file-name-nondirectory prog))
             (startfile (concat "~/.emacs_" name))
             (xargs-name (intern-soft (concat "explicit-" name "-args")))
             shell-buffer)
        (save-excursion
          (set-buffer (apply 'make-comint "shell" prog
                             (if (file-exists-p startfile) startfile)
                             (if (and xargs-name (boundp xargs-name))
                                 (symbol-value xargs-name)
                               '("-i"))))

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          (setq shell-buffer (current-buffer))
          (shell-mode))
        (pop-to-buffer shell-buffer))
    (pop-to-buffer "*shell*")))



Jeff