Hi Ben Thanks for your response and explanation of bash's startup behaviour. It is, I agree, braindead. However, I'm determined to stick with this for a while, rather than running back to zsh as normally happens...
On Jun 27, 9:41 pm, Ben Schmidt <mail_ben_schm...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > MacVim starts a login shell when it spawns Vim processes, because that's > what most users expect, and what Terminal.app does when you open a new > window. The shell MacVim spawns is non-interactive, though, not > interactive, of course. However, it results in ~/.profile or > ~/.bash_profile being sourced. > > What a lot of people do is have ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile do things > they want in all login shells, and have that *also* source ~/.bashrc to > do things they want only in interactive shells. Something like this: > > if echo $- | grep -q i ; then > [ -r ~/.bashrc ] && source ~/.bashrc > fi This works. Thanks for your help. > Getting ssh logins to do something sane is another nightmare. I have > code for that if anyone is interested, as well as more extensive code to > integrate the same kind of behaviour system-wide using /etc/profile and > so on. Just let me know if you want a copy and I will gather it together > and send. That would be useful, thanks. No hurry though, I don't have a problem this would solve (yet). > Hope this helps! Very much. cheers, J -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
