From: Steven Harris <steve@stevenharris.info>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to get shell source blocks to read my profile?
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 11:52:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFBwRkL43FTGccgmGBcXb8_c_LwgJzRJMjuj1B=R86kBRM30FQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czw02mws.fsf@gmail.com>
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Well on my mac Emacs is launched by Ruby. I remember having to allow ruby
to do that two years ago when I set this up.
But thanks for sharing your expertise. I've been a unixy admin for 20
years and didn't know a lot of that.
Cheers
Steven.
On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 07:34, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> George Mauer <gmauer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks a lot! The interactive/non-interactive was indeed the core issue.
> Extra frustrating because it seems like supplying `--rcfile` does nothing
> if you
> > *do* use `-c` but *don't* use `-i`...ah ad-hoc cli design.
> >
>
> It certainly can seem rather ad hoc. However, it actually makes sense on
> some levels. If you use -c your telling the shell to execute a command
> and then exit. By definition, this is non-interactive. This is covered
> in the manual.
>
> Where it becomes confusing is when your mixing in different options as
> some override others. So, provided you include -i with -c, it will be
> forced into interactive i.e. -i overrides the non-interactive status
> added with -c. If you add -s, telling the shell to read input from
> stdin, you also override non-interactive status.
>
> The other possible solution to your situation is to ensure
> Emacs runs inside an environment which has all your exported variables
> i.e. inside your login shell environment. There are a few ways to do
> this, but probably the easiest is to create a script which opens a login
> shell, then calls Emacs (may need to use open - not sure) and Emacs will
> inherit your environment. Advantage is that processes you then spawn
> from within Emacs will also inherit that environment. You then add this
> script as the executable in the dock rather than calling Emacs directly.
>
> One thing to watch out for is that if your also using oh-my-zsh, it
> setups up some aliases with the name emacs which actually call
> emacsclient. This can be confusing as it means running just 'emacs' in
> the shell will run the alias and not actually run Emacs directly. Things
> can be even more confusing as there are also multiple ways to install
> Emacs on the mac and they are all slightly different with respect to how
> they setup things.
>
> What I find hardest with writing shell stuff is that I simply don't seem
> to do it much anymore. My brain cache is just too small and when I find
> it necessary to write a shell script again, all that knowledge has been
> flushed! Once upon a time, many moons ago, I could write shell scripts
> that used sed, awk, cut, uniq etc without even needing to look at the
> man pages. These days, I have to check the bash man page just to
> remember what the expr operators are!
>
> --
> Tim Cross
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-16 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-14 21:30 How to get shell source blocks to read my profile? George Mauer
2021-03-14 21:51 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-15 2:35 ` George Mauer
2021-03-15 3:02 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-15 17:49 ` George Mauer
2021-03-15 19:53 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-16 0:52 ` Steven Harris [this message]
2021-03-16 12:20 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-03-16 13:21 ` George Mauer
2021-03-16 16:49 ` Nick Dokos
2021-03-16 20:32 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-18 14:59 ` Maxim Nikulin
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