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From: dgiglio@iol.it (daniele.g)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: enviromental variables into dot.emacs
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:35:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkjbmurb.fsf@father.nostromo.wy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r54npsxc.fsf@gmail.com

Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> writes:

>> My aim is to unify my conf files making them picking as many values as
>> possible from the same place.
>
> Same here.  I have COMPUTERNAME set to different values on different
> computers, so my init file contains
>
> (Cond ((string= (getenv "COMPUTERNAME") "home")
>        ... home computer specific stuff ...)
>       ((String= (getenv "COMPUTERNAME") "office")
>        ... office computer specific stuff ...)
>       ((String= (getenv "COMPUTERNAME") "netbook")
>        ... netbook specific stuff ...))

Forgive me, but my elisp skills are quite low. Can I use a syntax like
this?

(setq var (getenv $VAR))
-- 
  Era cosi' povero che non poteva neanche permettersi di regalare uno
  yo-yo al suo bambino per Natale.  Fece in modo di regalargli uno yo.
  		-- Martin Kauffman




  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-14 23:35 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 [this message]
2011-08-15  0:01         ` Jay Belanger
2011-08-14 16:07 ` Michael Markert

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