Hi, On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 14:42, Alex Griffin <a...@ajgrf.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, at 9:30 AM, zimoun wrote: > > Therefore, IMHO you need to set the environment variable by yourself > > in your config file. Or send a patch upstream. > > Because the reason is that EShell is not doing the right thing and it > > is not compliant to the doc. > > Compliant to which doc? The only place I can find documentation for > INSIDE_EMACS is in the shell-mode docs. I can't find any doc that suggests it > should be set by any other package.
I badly worded. Sorry. As Ricardo pointed [1], the Emacs doc [2] says: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Emacs sets the environment variable INSIDE_EMACS in the subshell to ‘version,comint’, where version is the Emacs version (e.g., ‘24.1’). Programs can check this variable to determine whether they are running inside an Emacs subshell. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So EShell should manage INSIDE_EMACS since it could be considered as an Interactive Shell or subshell. It is how I understand it. Maybe, I misread. Well, concretely, if you use EShell and you want a readable "guix describe", you have to put in your '.emacs' config file something like '(setenv "INSIDE_EMACS" "1")'. Or you should patch EShell and report it upstream. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-02/msg00040.html [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Interactive-Shell.html Hope that helps, simon
