Re: use zsh as login shell

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> 宋文武 <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> +  (mlet %store-monad ((bash-profile (text-file "bash_profile" "\
>>> +# honor ~/.bashrc if the shell is interactive
>>> +[[ $- == *i* ]] && source ~/.bashrc
>>
>> I don’t think the test is needed, because ~/.bash_profile is only read
>> by interactive Bash.
>
> Indeed.  However, it would be good to check if ~/.bashrc exists.
> Section 6.2 of the Bash manual suggests this:
>
>   if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi

Yes.

>>> +# load system-wide environment varibales
>>> +source /etc/environment
>>> +
>>> +# common varibales for user profile
>>> +export PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$HOME/.guix-profile/sbin:$PATH
>>> +export INFOPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/share/info:$INFOPATH\n"))
>>> +                      (bashrc (text-file "bashrc" "\
>>> +PS1='address@hidden \\w\\$ '
>>
>> I think PS1 should go to /etc/profile.  WDYT?
>
> I agree with 宋文武 that the PS1 setting belongs in the default
> ~/.bashrc skeleton.  I would prefer to keep settings like this, that are
> purely a matter of personal taste, out of system-wide files.  Also,
> /etc/profile is read by other shells, and I don't know that the syntax
> above is portable.

OK, that makes sense to me.

Ludo’.