From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: updating shell environment variables Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:50:27 -0700 Message-ID: <2v1lq9F2gfd06U1@uni-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099669925 32175 80.91.229.6 (5 Nov 2004 15:52:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:52:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 05 16:52:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CQ6Nc-0001BC-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:52:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CQ6Vo-0003ea-De for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:00:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de E7VqO5BpEiAo2xKuVS90QQsSAWTDazsBJcnVxJGPjU5s6ewns= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126371 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21760 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21760 Dan Elliott wrote: > If I need to change a few environment variables, must I exit and restart > emacs for these to take effect? I typically run emacs with the -nw switch > and then suspend emacs when I need to change env. variables. Is there a > better way? Having to restart emacs is a major pain! M-x setenv I guess `C-h a env RET' was too painful to even try. -- Kevin Rodgers