I'm trying to get Emacs eshell to use the same alias' as bash.
I tried following the wisdom in the top comment from Stackoverflow here, which was to add these two lines to the .emacs profile:
(setq shell-file-name "bash")
(setq shell-command-switch "-ic")
but nothing happened.
Then I tried this wiki option here. Which is to have the bash alias script overwrite the emacs eshell alias file whenever a new terminal opens:
alias | sed -E "s/^alias ([^=]+)='(.*)'$/alias \1 \2 \$*/g; s/'\\\''/'/g;" >~/.emacs.d/eshell/alias
However, this one results in an error when I open a new terminal (note that running it with a capital -E doesn't work for me):
sed: -e expression #1, char 42: invalid reference \2 on 's' commands' RHS.
Would anyone know how to go about resolving this sed error? I realize the wiki option specifically points to using .bashrc - admittedly, I don't know how this is different from the ~/.alias file I've been using.
For example, I have a .alias file like so:
#!/bin/bash
alias episas="nice -19 perl $EPI/analysis/scripts/episas ";
alias | sed -e "s/^alias ([^=]+)='(.*)'$/alias \1 \2 \$*/g; s/'\\\''/'/g;" >~/.emacs.d/eshell/alias
and I want my /.emacs.d/eshell/alias file to have the same alias for episas.
Thank you for any help!