From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>
Subject: Re: $HOME var
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:07:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E6CE277.9030207@ihs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2983.1047115759.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: Chris McMahan <cmcmahan+n@one.net>
>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>Date: 07 Mar 2003 16:38:33 -0500
>>
>>So to set your HOME variable from within emacs,
>>(setenv "HOME" "c:/documents\ and\ settings/username")
>>
>
> I don't recomment this: it creates a dangerous disparity between the
> environment used by Emacs and the environment passed by Emacs to its
> subprocesses. In the archives of this thread, you will find many
> examples of trouble into which this could get unsuspecting users.
How could that be? setenv updates process-environment, which is the environment
passed to subprocesses -- isn't it?
--
<a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
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[not found] <mailman.2931.1047032076.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-03-07 11:21 ` $HOME var Torsten Müller
2003-03-07 18:48 ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-03-07 18:51 ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-03-07 21:38 ` Chris McMahan
2003-03-08 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2983.1047115759.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-03-10 19:07 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-03-11 4:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-03-07 10:49 Victor Kirk
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2003-03-07 10:13 Anthony G
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