Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-30 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: jose isaias cabrera wrote: Ken Brown wrote... What's the reason for launching everything using sh rather than bash? If I'm reading the bash documentation correctly, it means that ~/.bash_profile won't get executed (though it would get executed if it were renamed

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
jose isaias cabrera wrote: Ken Brown wrote... What's the reason for launching everything using sh rather than bash? If I'm reading the bash documentation correctly, it means that ~/.bash_profile won't get executed (though it would get executed if it were renamed ~/.profile). Ken I've

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-23 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/6/23 Jon TURNEY: Always assuming that /bin/bash exists, or that /bin/sh is bash is probably bad style for portability across unicies. However, in this specific case, it's probably ok. You never know. If posix_spawn() ever gets implemented in Cygwin to avoid the slowness of fork(),

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: On 6/17/2009 3:17 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: + emacs execbash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs notepad execnotepad xload execxload -display %display% # Comment } The most important part of this is changing the way emacs is called; the original version

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/20/2009 4:43 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I prefer bash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs so that the bash initialization files are processed before emacs starts. For various reasons, I want the environment inside emacs to be the same as the usual bash environment. I suspect that most

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-20 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Ken Brown wrote... What's the reason for launching everything using sh rather than bash? If I'm reading the bash documentation correctly, it means that ~/.bash_profile won't get executed (though it would get executed if it were renamed ~/.profile). Ken I've always wondered the same

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/17/2009 3:17 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: + emacs execbash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs notepad execnotepad xload execxload -display %display% # Comment } The most important part of this is changing the way emacs is called; the original version didn't work at all

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: I recommend that the xorg-server maintainers consider the following patch to system.XWinrc: --- system.XWinrc.orig 2009-02-22 12:27:28.0 -0500 +++ system.XWinrc 2009-06-09 11:57:50.328125000 -0400 @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ // Make some menus... menu apps { -

Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-09 Thread Ken Brown
I recommend that the xorg-server maintainers consider the following patch to system.XWinrc: --- system.XWinrc.orig 2009-02-22 12:27:28.0 -0500 +++ system.XWinrc 2009-06-09 11:57:50.328125000 -0400 @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ // Make some menus... menu apps { - xterm exec