On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Sachidananda Urs <sac....@gmail.com> wrote: > Try putting them in .kshrc, this the file that is read by terminal > emulators.
Nope. ~/.kshrc isn't special to the shell or to terminal emulators. It *is* a traditional value for the ENV environment variable, but for that to have any effect on a non-login shell started by a terminal emulator, the ENV variable has to be set in the environment of the terminal emulator. Philip Guenther