On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hisham wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> At least mine *does* read zprofile in interactive shells: I put echo > >> lines at the end of my .zshrc and .zprofile and when I now launch an > >> xterm -ls I get this: > >> > >> reading .zprofile > >> reading .zshrc > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] > > > > Yes, but -ls turn on "login shell", so that's why .zprofile was read, > isn't it? > > Yes, of course. I now see the confusion, what I was arguing against was > the idea that interactive login shells didn't read zprofile, but perhaps > nobody was saying this... :) > > An interactive non-login shell wouldn't read zprofile, that's right. But > I'm having a hard time seeing why you would need environment variables > without beeing logged in. And how often do you use an interactive > non-login shell that is not started from another login shell, and need > the env variables? "Display manager straight into X" (without login) is > not something you would want, since the env variables wouldn't be there > and many things wouldn't work. regardless if they are set in zprofile or > zshrc. (zshrc is *not* always read, only on interactive shells, which a > display manager login shell is not. > > This thread is starting to get ridiculous.. :)
No, this thread is not ridiculous -- esac is! :) Getting this kind of shell stuff 100% right is complicated business and threads like this are valuable because each participant brings different aspects of knowledge to the table. > All I want is that login > shells should have the proper env vars set, regardless of whether the > shell is interactive (text prompt) or not. It's fair. I too find it hard to imagine a shell running that didn't have any (grand^n for n >= 0)-parent process that was a login shell. My suggestion: how about this? (pseudo-shell ahead: ) zprofile: export ZPROFILE_SET=1 # export PATH and other env vars... zshrc: if [ ! "$ZPROFILE_SET" = "1" ] then source zprofile fi # other interactive shell stuff: prompt style, completion, etc. I think this should make everyone happy, no? -- Hisham _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
