From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Environment Variables Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:45:12 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <7e3068b0-defa-4b37-9092-182b521f5f50@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <3568102A-B060-4D1F-B7B5-7944386B07A9@Web.DE> <20071124124821.GA5409@ono.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195915242 22012 80.91.229.12 (24 Nov 2007 14:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 24 15:40:49 2007 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 1IvwBc-00051k-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:40:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvwBN-00086j-FO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:40:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g30g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.174.114.42 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195911913 12871 127.0.0.1 (24 Nov 2007 13:45:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g30g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.174.114.42; posting-account=-8S7awoAAACHUVaAJfEsmlJ9SZ495oJ5 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071022 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.8, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154037 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:49470 Archived-At: Thanks for the quick replies. Yes, emacs does inherit the variables automatically if I start it from a bash terminal. But if I start it from say my ubuntu menu, then I need to use the /etc/environment trick. Thanks again!