From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: $HOME var
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 11:24:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5137-Sat08Mar2003112434+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3cly7t7q.fsf@one.net> (message from Chris McMahan on 07 Mar 2003 16:38:33 -0500)
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-08 9:24 UTC|newest]
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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 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2983.1047115759.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-03-10 19:07 ` Kevin Rodgers
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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