How to make bash default shell

[mtraudt]

I am using SE 11.0.2 with openSUSE 10.2.  I have ksh and tcsh installed and SlickEdit will always prefer these as my process shell, even though $SHELL=/bin/bash.  I strongly prefer bash as my shell and wonder if there is a way to configure from within SlickEdit.  Currently I am renaming /bin/tcsh and /bin/ksh and this works but is not really desirable.

[Graeme]

Search on the forum for...  bash shell

Probably this will help
http://community.slickedit.com/index.php?topic=295.0

Graeme

[mtraudt]

Search on the forum for...  bash shell

Probably this will help
http://community.slickedit.com/index.php?topic=295.0

Graeme

I tried this suggestion (setting def_process_shell macro) but it has no impact, which is not surprising since the default value was "/bin/sh -i" while by default I will get a tcsh.  It seems that SE has some other way of deciding which shell to use.

[hs2]

Did you set the def_linux1_shell var (since you're using SUSE Linux) ?

HS2

[Wanderer]

Is there any way to set the shell that SlickEdit uses on Windows (without changing the COMSPEC env var, or launching SlickEdit from batch file that changes COMSPEC)?

[hs2]

Yes - setup your <config - dir>/vslick.ini accordingly.

snippet of my vslick.ini

; force comspec to cmd.exe
COMSPEC=%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cmd.exe

HS2

[jchick]

Hi,

I too am trying to change the default shell in the build window with no success. I've tried changing vslick.ini as suggested and I can see the change to the environment variable inside the shell, but it's still the default cmd.exe shell.

Recently I've installed MinGW to start a cross platform project. All my scripts use configure, perl and make which run fine in an external shell. But I would like to run the shell in SE to avoid switching tasks. I know I can use macros, change the menus, change the build commands, I use all those, but I am used to typing in all my stuff in the build shell window in SE and would really like to continue doing so.

I'm using:
Windows XP sp2
SEv11.0.2

Offtopic:
I think its awesome that you guys have gotten around to having your own forums. I've been using SE since version 3 something....way back. Its great to have a place to chat about SE issues. Now I'll have to go repost all my old posts off lazyhacker.com

[natros]

One thing that is very annoying to me is the escape sequences. Look at my prompt, it's awful

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(neptuno:scp/scpd/daemon) fsousa%

How can I fix this?

[Lee]

The escape sequences not being displayed correctly in the process/build window is a known issue,  to address that see:
http://community.slickedit.com/index.php?topic=69.0
http://community.slickedit.com/index.php?topic=581.0