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Re: No User Shell Envir in Emacs via SSH
From: |
Mathias Megyei |
Subject: |
Re: No User Shell Envir in Emacs via SSH |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:31:21 +0100 |
I have in my .bash_profile
LOGIN_SHELL=true
export LOGIN_SHELL
and in my .bashrc
if [ "x$LOGIN_SHELL" = "x" ]; then
. .bash_profile
fi
Sa after ssh my .bash_profile is sorced only once.
Mathias
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 21:31 -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> Sitting at home, I enter this into KDE's "Run Command..."
> (Kubuntu) to "map" an X11/Emacs session running on my office
> machine onto my home machine's monitor:
>
> +----------------------------+ | Command: ssh office emacs |
> +----------------------------+
>
> The window appears on my home machine as expected and works fine.
>
> The problem, however, is that my office machine's "bash
> environment" isn't included/defined within Emacs. Apparently, the
> only environmental variables defined are those from a system-wide
> Bash init file (e.g. DISPLAY, HOME, LANG, MAIL, PATH, etc.).
>
> Does anyone know what I need to do so that the "exported
> variables" (i.e., environment) defined in my ".bashrc" are also
> present?
>
> I've never found a good solution for this.
>
> What I'm using now is an astonishingly ugly Rube Goldberg type hack,
> whereby my .bashrc runs a _perl_ program that creates files with
> environment variable definitions -- one for the Bourne shell, and one
> for emacs -- and then my .bash_profile sources the shell file, and I
> have Emacs load the emacs file.
>
> It works, but it makes the Baby Jesus cry. Details upon request.
>