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Ran into a minor problem. I have a Perl program in emacs. In the shell I =
create a new environment variable (properly exported, of course). I do =
an=20
M-x perldb to run the program. I cannot get the value of that new =
environment variable when the program runs.

Apparently the emacs environment that the perldb runs in does not update =
the external environment variables. Can it be done manually with an =
emacs command or automatically with a customization variable?