On Mon, 13 May 2002, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   Is it me or does the Shell Command function use /bin/sh
> to execute commands regardless of the value of my SHELL
> variable?
>
>   For example, I start mutt with
>
> SHELL=/usr/local/bin/zsh  mutt
>
> and then run !ps -p $$

if mutt's using system(), that's usually defined to /bin/sh, ignoring your
$SHELL variable.

>
> and it shows "sh".
>
>   Am I doing something wrong?  I'd like to be able access
> my shell aliases from mutt via !.
>
> Yours truly,
> -at
>

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