From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: shell environment variables
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:05:27 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwubdgmo4.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1484.1065794937.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Ran into a minor problem. I have a Perl program in emacs. In the shell
^^^
I see no reason to assume there's only one shell.
> I create a new environment variable (properly exported, of course). I do
> an M-x perldb to run the program. I cannot get the value of that new
> environment variable when the program runs.
"the" shell is probably not the shell from which you started Emacs.
Each and every process has its own set of environment variables and
they are only copied from parent to child when a process is spawned.
If you use M-x setenv from Emacs, things should work better.
Stefan
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2003-10-10 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-10-10 13:56 shell environment variables Harter, Douglas
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