Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <000901c1261c$9741dba0$4c7b1f3e@LEPER> Reply-To: "Fergus on Linux" From: "Fergus on Linux" To: Cc: "Fergus on Linux" Subject: rxvt: inheritance: shell, path and aliases Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:27:57 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Thank you for a terrific distribution. I have installed Cygwin in full and start it conventionally with /bin/bash --login -i. In ~/.bash_profile I set a path with PATH=, a prompt with PS1=; and also a number of aliases -- for example alias rm="rm -i" alias ls="ls --color" My question is this: when I open a rxvt terminal window with rxvt , then I find using echo $SHELL that the shell is still /bin/bash as required; using echo $PATH the path is evidently preserved; the prompt is still as required; but the aliases have _not_ been inherited. Of course, I can re-define aliases in the rxvt window but this is a pain. Or I can use some sort of script but this is untidy. Can you offer a suggestion for why this problem might occur? Change the syntax for the way aliasing is achieved in ~/.bash_profile? Tweak rxvt and update (if it is indeed a problem with rxvt itself)? Thank you very much for any help anybody might feel able to offer. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/