Re: On prompt in shell mode

[Angelo Graziosi]

David Hansen wrote:

> Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>
> > On Cygwin, it seems that only the 'else' branch is followed. Indeed using
> >
> > if [ "x$EMACS" = xt ]; then
> > # set up your prompt for M-x shell.
> > PS1='OK1> '
> > else
> > # fancy prompt for real terminals.
> > PS1='OK2> '
> > fi
>
> What shell do you use?  The brackets may be a bash extension.  You can
> try: if test "x$EMACS" = xt; then ...

I think the cause is this: on Cygwin .bashrc is 'executed by bash for
login shells', instead on Linux it is 'executed by bash for NON login
shells'! and I think M-x shell executes a NON-login shell, i.e. it does
not execute .bashrc!

This seems to be confirmed by

   M-x shell
   OK2> . ~/.bashrc
   OK1>

i.e. the prompt I ask for Emacs M-x shell!

      Angelo