Make shell-default-term-shell affect multi-term

[darkfeline]

Currently shell-default-term-shell only affects the default shell in term and ansi-term, not multi-term (which is determined by shell-file-name). I think it would be more consistent to make multi-term affected by shell-default-term-shell as well.

This is especially apparent if one is using a dumb shell for shell-file-name and a smarter one for *-term.

[moritzschaefer]

Calling
(setq shell-file-name "/bin/bash")
in user-init (and/or user-config) also doesn't change my shell (default is zsh) as suggested in
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/28647/how-do-i-change-the-default-shell-for-shell-command?newreg=7645bedc8728440697192caa5b4634ce

[d12frosted]

I never used multi-term nor I have it installed on my machine. But after looking at its source code (I hope I found the right one) I think you can try setting the value of multi-term-program. E.g.

(setq multi-term-program "/bin/bash")

You can also try using Emacs describe functionality to find this variable. Either C-h v or SPC h d v and type multi-term to see what variables it exposes.

[d12frosted]

Ok, I have just tried it and it works.

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