From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: henry atting Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: setting enviromment variable Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:33:56 +0200 Organization: literaturlatenight Message-ID: <87eiqzws3v.fsf@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251232913 8958 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 20:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:41:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 22:41:46 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mg2pu-0007q8-8j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:41:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mg2pt-0003Hj-Jm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:41:45 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX189ZXGMDj5gZ0m0TAiXSNwngDtRnMbGlFN4fnCkgL1IczFZ6Q8Kzgpaqjdakz7WUmX8H8lKPGIGiGELT6Ifk6yGg2FEkm3D7d1agggiZrcI7nM3YpPGrtdQylrfa+zLli6u4Ax5NEIDJg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:33:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/xiV2OHdYy8wX+KhiNyrf2BSMteEcoMjo= Cancel-Lock: sha1:tljUIaOvC83tVuL3NT8cOJT2OOw= sha1:iic30oCBiSUiRUfz0PVRBMMs06I= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172386 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67528 Archived-At: Hi, setting environment variables does not work anymore. I do it like this: ;; ledger file variable (setenv "LEDGER_FILE" (concat (getenv "LEDGER_FILE") "~/ledger/ledger.dat")) ;; printer variable (setenv "PRINTER" (concat (getenv "PRINTER") "HL2030")) Evaluating produces: "~/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat" "HL2030HL2030HL2030HL2030" Hence I cannot print or use ledger from the eshell command line: While parsing environment variable option 'LEDGER_FILE=~/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat': Error: The ledger file '/home/atting/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat' does not exist or is not readable (GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1) henry -- http://literaturlatenight.de