From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Please precede all environmental variables with EMACS_
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:20:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr6gtsdmp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4781F12F.4010804@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:30:23 +0100")
> 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?
> 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.
I have the nagging suspicion that there's a real bug lurking here
somewhere, but the above doesn't help me track it down because I just
don't understand it.
Please write a real bug-report, with the usual recipe starting from
"emacs -Q" explaining what happens when you do something and what you
expected to happen instead.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-07 18:20 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)
2008-01-07 17:15 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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