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make the startup shell a variable to fix macos issues w/ posix
adonh Jul 13, 2025
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Merge branch 'akermu:master' into adonh/sh-variable
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Expand Up @@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ fall back to tramp's shell."
:type '(alist :key-type string :value-type string)
:group 'vterm)

(defcustom vterm-start-shell "/bin/sh"
"The shell that starts the vterm shell."
:type 'string
:group 'vterm)

(defcustom vterm-buffer-name "*vterm*"
"The basename used for vterm buffers.
This is the default name used when running `vterm' or
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:name "vterm"
:buffer (current-buffer)
:command
`("/bin/sh" "-c"
`(vterm-start-shell "-c"
,(format
"stty -nl sane %s erase ^? rows %d columns %d >/dev/null && exec %s"
;; Some stty implementations (i.e. that of *BSD) do not
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