Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs shell?

[David Karr]

On Jun 20, 2:06 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 20.06.2009 um 01:03 schrieb David Karr:
>
> > to configure Emacs or the Bash inside Emacs, so that it doesn't get  
> > killed when a script it's running fails.
>
> Make the shell script trap (shell built-in) this catastrophic error  
> and just execute an exit (shell built-in) instead (in last millennium  
> this was standard). You can also run shell scripts asynchronously in  
> a dedicated temporary buffer by executing it as a shell or compile  
> command.

If it matters, changing my test script to use "trap" to just exit on a
signal didn't make any difference.