How do you set up the environment for es?

Question

I've been playing with es the last couple of days, and it (like rc) has the quirk/feature that it only runs its startup script (.esrc) on login. The usual way to run code in each interactive session is to put that code in the %prompt function.

Of course, there's no %prompt function if es -l has never been run.

So, the question: how do you set the login environment when you come in via gdm or similar, which only source .profile (or .xprofile, .xsession, etc.)? The best I've come up with is:

if [ -f "$HOME/.esrc" ]; then
    eval "`es -l <<-x
        sh <<<'export -p'
    x`"
fi

Which seems... horrifying. Any better approaches?

Answer 1

Since no one has a real answer, here's my horrible hack. Some shells (*rxvt for example) have settings that allow to force a login shell. So, in your .Xdefaults, you can add something akin to

urxvt256c-ml:loginShell: true

Which means that all urxvt256c-ml terminal you launch will have a login shell by default.

Does that help at all?