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> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:28:25 -0800
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > !     (setenv "TERM" "emacs")
> 
> I apologize if this reply is not very meaningful, as I haven't followed
> this.
> 
> But is it good to change a user's environment variable this way?

setenv doesn't change user's environment, it changes the environment
passed to inferior processes.