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Article #225Re: Emacs environment variable lost
From: Patrice Belleville
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:56
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:56
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From article <CMOORE.92Jul24092902@zenobia.mit.edu>, by cmoore@zenobia.mit.edu (Christopher B. Moore):
>
> I've noticed (while installing the Auc-TeX package) that evaluation of
> (getenv "HOSTTYPE") in an Emacs2.1 window started by clicking on the
> Emacs2.1 icon in the workspace returns nil. However, in an Emacs2.1
> window started from the commandline it returns "next". What gives?
>
> Christopher B. Moore
> cmoore@maggie.mit.edu
Well, the problem is that the workspace does not run your .login or
your .cshrc. So programs started from it will not have access to your
favorite environment variables. One fix is to add the following lines to your
.emacs file:
(setq process-environment (append
process-environment
'("HOSTTYPE=next" "OTHERVAR=othervalue" [more of these])))
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!fornax!patrice From: patrice@cs.sfu.ca (Patrice Belleville) Subject: Re: Emacs environment variable lost Message-ID: <1992Jul24.145633.28258@cs.sfu.ca> Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <CMOORE.92Jul24092902@zenobia.mit.edu> Distribution: cct Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:56:33 GMT Lines: 26