Re: Shell aliases as shell-commands

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>:
> It is possible to use your aliases [and functions] with M-x
> shell-command, I do it all the time. Do the following:
>
>   * in you bash config (.bashrc): shopt -s -q expand_aliases
>     This makes bash aliases work in non-interactive bashs.
>
>   * In your emacs config (.emacs): (setenv "BASH_ENV" "~/.bashrc")
>     This tells emacs that non-interactive bash subprocesses should
>     load .bashrc.

Damn that's a good tip.  Guess I should tell the folks over at
emacs.sources...  there was me thinking I'd written something useful!

Sebastian