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Article #420Re: Improving EMACS
From: Brian Tao
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:02
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:02
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In article <lf71906@pro-sol.cts.com> mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis) writes:
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>There was a really good reason why you couldn't do this. I think it was
>because you can only change existing $variables, not create new ones.
>The only alternative was to use %variables instead.
OK, I was just curious about that. Not that it really matters to the rest
of the program. Another thing, setting variables on the command line (via
the -I switch) doesn't seem to take effect until *after* the startup script
is run. I want to pass the $USER and $HOME environment variables from the
shell the MuGS startup script, but it always returns ERROR. Only after the
script has finish executing are the variables set properly. I'm using
'emacs -I%user $user' on the command line.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!geac!r-node!taob From: taob@r-node.gts.org (Brian Tao) Subject: Re: Improving EMACS Message-ID: <1992Dec19.070225.1624@r-node.gts.org> Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366) References: <1992Dec12.050031.18427@r-node.gts.org> <lf71906@pro-sol.cts.com> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:02:25 GMT Lines: 18