From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Subject: Re: enviromental variables into dot.emacs
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:01:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hb5jk0g0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zkjbmurb.fsf@father.nostromo.wy
> Forgive me, but my elisp skills are quite low. Can I use a syntax like
> this?
>
> (setq var (getenv $VAR))
It will have to be (getenv "VAR"), and var will then be a string.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-15 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-14 15:50 enviromental variables into dot.emacs daniele.g
2011-08-14 16:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-08-14 20:12 ` daniele.g
2011-08-14 20:28 ` Michael Markert
2011-08-15 8:47 ` daniele.g
2011-08-14 21:46 ` Jay Belanger
2011-08-14 23:35 ` daniele.g
2011-08-15 0:01 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2011-08-14 16:07 ` Michael Markert
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