Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: <SNIP> > As is .bash_profile. You don't understand that it was *created* to be a way > to configure *bash* and nothing else. NO, its purpose is to allow the user to modify the global configuration set in /etc/profile. All Bash shell configurations should be in /etc/bashrc and $HOME/.bashrc. You do understand that setting the environment variables isn't a shell configuration, don't you? > Anything other than bash (or a fully-bash-compatible shell) reading it is wrong. > Well DUH! That is something completely different. Different shells have different script syntax so obviously that is true. <SNIP> > (Grumble, had to correct my line breaks there -- I think kmail is too generous > with f=f.) Yes, it is annoying. Thunderbird screws such things up with rewrap too. -- JRT Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.