How to make Emacs 's shell mode source my profile file?

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I have defined some aliases and function snippets int some of my profile files, say, ~/.zprofile. But Emacs never reads them. There is already a topic about it. However, it's not enough:

It cannot source completely .zshrc and would emit errors for compinit and the like.
Seems this approach only works for environment VARIABLES.

So in shell-mode or run command in Emacs(Alt-!) the effect is still different with that in terminal(emulators).

So is there any way to deal with the problem? Thanks.

Burton Samograd · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-19 16:45:50Z

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You can create a file ~/.emacs_zsh (or .emacs_bash, emacs_sh, ...) that shell-mode will use on startup. My .emacs_bash is simply:

. ~/.profile

Just be sure to put a newline at the end of the sourcing line or it won't get executed.

answered Apr 19, 2013 at 16:45

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Hongxu Chen Over a year ago

Works! BTW, could you please also show me some reference for this? Thanks.

jthetzel Over a year ago

These can also be created within .emacs.d with a slightly different naming convention: ~/.emacs.d/init_bash.sh

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