From: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please precede all environmental variables with EMACS_
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 04:54:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080107045457.669d2989@reforged> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4781F12F.4010804@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:30:23 +0100
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Help! Some megalomanic software has stolen the DISPLAY environmental
> variable so Emacs/Emacs client will not work.
>
> Could please environmental variables specific to Emacs be changed to
> begin with EMACS_ ? For example change DISPLAY to EMACS_DISPLAY.
>
> In my case I have
>
> DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
>
> Emacs does not recognize that value. Should Emacs recognize it or
> should Emacs use its own variable, named like EMACS_DISPLAY?
AFAIK DISPLAY is interpreted by xlib not emacs. localhost is redundant.
DISPLAY=":0.0" is the typical default for a local server. I can't even
think of a Emacs environment variable that isn't prefixed e.g EMACSLOADPATH.
> FYI, the value of the environmental variable DISPLAY is used by
> Emacs/Emacs client in 23.0.50.1. Emacs does not recognize the value
> above.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-07 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-07 9:30 Please precede all environmental variables with EMACS_ Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-07 12:54 ` Mike Mattie [this message]
2008-01-08 0:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-07 17:15 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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