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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please precede all environmental variables with EMACS_
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:30:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4782C425.3050108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080107045457.669d2989@reforged>

Mike Mattie wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Mike. I should have said that this is on w32.

I have just filed a bug report.

PS: ALTERNATE_EDITOR is not prefixed with EMACS_.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-08  0:30 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
2008-01-08  0:30   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-01-07 17:15 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier

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