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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

Lee Forrest wrote:
> I am having problems with it. It won't see any aliases (and
> I've tried _everything_) unless I run '. etc/profile' in
> each window.

These are rxvt windows, right? What command are you using to launch
them? When you start rxvts from the menu in the default BL3 X setup,
they are launched with the -ls option (to start the shells as login
shells). If you start your rxvts just by executing 'rxvt', the shell
is started as a non-login shell, and those do Not automatically import
/etc/profile.

> When I converted one of them to a shell function, and ran it, it crashed the
> window.

I will attempt to reproduce this. More specifics would be helpful
(e.g. example crash_me script).

> > You can run X programs without any window manager - check the
> > archives.
>
> Sure. But I run 'xterms' in three windows at startup, and
> sometimes more.

You can tab between them in swm with Alt-tab. No rodent necessary.

> I rely heavily on those aliases, although, oddly, the word
> doesn't appear in man ash.

Very odd. The BSD manpage has alias information:

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ash+1

> As an interesting aside:
> Ratpoison with three windows uses about half as much memory as
> swm with three windows, all other things being equal.
> (8M to 15M with nothing much going on.)

Are you sure that you are accounting for the various memory management
tricks of Linux? e.g. shared functions, buffers, mmap'd files?

David