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Re: Running tcsh in rxvt
- To: belg4mit at MIT dot EDU, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Running tcsh in rxvt
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:36:14 -0400
At 02:22 PM 9/13/2001, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
>What's the best way to do this?
>If you do rxvt -e tcsh (say from a shortcut).
>The user's dotfile is not parsed (seemingly because home etc. don't get
>correctly set from passwd), plus tab completion and history don't work.
>
>I've got:
> bash --login -i -c "/bin/rxvt -e tcsh" &
>
>But it seems like there really ought to be a way to avoid the seemingly
>unnecessary invocation of bash and having it hanging around afterwards...
What's the matter with "rxvt -e tcsh -l" ?
>Of course:
> rxvt -e bash --login -i #from the rxvt documentation
>doesn't work properly when invoking from outside of the cygwin environment
>either; i.e. not from an exiisting bash --login -i session.
How so? Works fine for me.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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