From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Post-22.1 development? Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878xb05ras.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200706101559.l5AFxBFb006829@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <86fy4yg62v.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <466ED07F.9000002@gnu.org> <864pla7w1u.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86odjh380w.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182020401 11093 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 19:00:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jasonr@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 21:00:00 2007 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 1HzdV6-0007Wi-50 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:59:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdV5-0006Gn-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdMt-00010P-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdMr-0000yz-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdMr-0000yl-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzdMr-0006Rv-HI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzdMr-0006ye-72; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <86odjh380w.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:02:23 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:73096 Archived-At: I think it would be confusing if setenv and most particularly getenv did not work for TERM and DISPLAY variables, and I see no particular benefit to letting them stop to work mostly as previously. I agree. We can write special case code to handle these two variables in those functions. If setenv/getenv are to remain the preferred accessors, it seems reasonable to gather the terminal-local variables in a single list in order not to have to special-case every variable. I disagree there. It is just two variables; handling each one specially is not much complexity, and it is only inside setenv and getenv. And separate variables will be more convenient for callers of call-process, etc.