From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please precede all environmental variables with EMACS_ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:30:29 +0100 Message-ID: <4782C425.3050108@gmail.com> References: <4781F12F.4010804@gmail.com> <20080107045457.669d2989@reforged> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199752243 12211 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2008 00:30:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mike Mattie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 01:31:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JC2Mu-0004z3-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:31:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JC2MW-00023G-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:30:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC2MT-000231-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:30:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC2MR-00022p-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JC2MR-00022m-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:30:31 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JC2MR-00047r-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:30:31 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:63647 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JC2MP-00028A-7o; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:30:29 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <20080107045457.669d2989@reforged> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080107-0, 2008-01-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JC2MP-00028A-7o. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JC2MP-00028A-7o be895b7665ca5d18ff75843670a90bb6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86537 Archived-At: Mike Mattie wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:30:23 +0100 > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" 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_.