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Buck" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#58137: 28.1; M-x setenv RET PATH RET should default to the current $PATH Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:26:44 +1000 Message-ID: References: <87o7uzg6ul.fsf@gmail.com> <87leq3ycn1.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12959"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 58137-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 29 05:27:12 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1odkCd-0003E6-Fe for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2022 05:27:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57502 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1odkCb-0004Cc-Jo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1odkCU-0004Bj-Ss for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1odkCU-0002rp-Jx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1odkCU-00007n-AM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:27:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Trent W. 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[2403:5804:c6::add]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r18-20020aa79892000000b00536816c0d4asm4915830pfl.147.2022.09.28.20.26.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87leq3ycn1.fsf@gnus.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:243864 Archived-At: On Wed 28 Sep 2022 13:14:10 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > "Trent W. Buck" writes: > > > I wish M-x setenv, when setting a variable that already has a value, > > defaulted to that value (instead of the empty string). > > > > This would make it easier to make minor adjustments to a long messy value. > > The history is already there (M-p), but it's input history. > > If the variable was initially set outside of Emacs, it won't be in history. > > M-x setenv RET PATH RET M-n > > will bring you the current value from the "future history". This is how > most prompting commands in Emacs work. I confirm that this works -- thanks. I can't believe I never discovered this before! If I had known about this 20 years ago I might not have bothered with ido :-P