Re: Autogen in Emacs Shell

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 20:35:11 +0200
> From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Finally, do you have any comments on the issue with "~/emacs.d/init_bash.sh"
> that I've described before. Let me introduce another test case briefly. Put
> 
> # Hello, World!
> # Hello, World!
> # Hello, World!
> 
> into "~/emacs.d/init_bash.sh".
> 
> Then start 'bash' from Emacs. Here is what I see:
> 
> 2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
> Haroogan@G75VW:~
> $ 
> 2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
> Haroogan@G75VW:~
> $ 
> 2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
> Haroogan@G75VW:~
> $ 
> 2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
> Haroogan@G75VW:~
> $ 
> 
> Those 3 newlines were really typed into the shell. How come?

Now that we know that the contents of this file are sent as an input
string to the shell when it starts, what did you expect?  The shell
gets 3 lines, each one of which is a comment, so it does nothing, but
displays the newline.  What is surprising here?