emacs dired problems with globbing and exported functions on AIX

[Daniel Ortmann]

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Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have
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In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386--freebsd, X toolkit)
 of Fri Sep 22 2000 on pyrl.eye
configured using `configure  --with-x-toolkit --with-pop --prefix=/usr/local 
i386--freebsd'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

(THIS PROBLEM REPORT REFERS TO AIX DIRED MODE, /bin/sh AND BASH.  I
suspect that /bin/sh may be behaving too much like ksh with respect to
exported functions.  I send this from my home system since my work
machine is having email problems.)

I previously reported a dired problem where C-x d pwrspice* RET
(i.e. using wildcards with dired) added "*" and other marks (as if from
ls -lF) to the dired buffer's file names.

These extra marks left dired unable to recognize file names correctly.

The problem was that I am using the BASH SHELL AND AM USING EXPORTED
FUNCTIONS, INCLUDING 'ls'!!!

Since the shell is invoked to expand globs in names, IT IS ALSO GRABBING
THE EXPORTED 'ls=() { ... ; }' FUNCTION!!!

Adding the following code to my .emacs file fixes the problem:

(let ((lenv process-environment)
      (goodenv))
  (while lenv
    (if (string-match "^\\([a-z][a-z0-9_]*\\)=()" (car lenv))
        (message "removing exported bash function '%s' from the emacs
environment" (match-string 1 (car lenv)))
      (setq goodenv (cons (car lenv) goodenv))
      )
    (setq lenv (cdr lenv))
    )
  (setq process-environment goodenv)
  )

If this behavior is ok, then please cancel my previous problem report.
Else, if this is a NEW problem ... would someone please record it?

Thank you!



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C-c C-c q return M-> C-p return C-x o C-v C-v C-v C-v 
C-v C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n M-0 C-l C-SPC C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
M-w M-x r e p o r tab return

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