Re: ~/.emacs_bash setting PS1

[Samuel Karl Peterson]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:05:51
-0500 didst step forth and proclaim thus:

>> file doesn't seem to work.  Oddly enough, I can type 'exit' and then
>> I'll have a shell with the proper PS1 variable set.
>
> Could you give a precise recipe to reproduce this very odd behavior?
>

C-x C-f ~/.emacs_bash
; put this as the only line in the file
export PS1="[\u@\h \W]$ "
C-x C-s
C-x C-k
M-x shell
exit

Emacs version: GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
2.12.0) of 2007-11-06 on terranova, modified by Ubuntu

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