From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:54:54 +0900 Organization: NEC Electronics Message-ID: References: <861whjr097.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <200705141648.l4EGmmvW007675@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85bqgngvos.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200705141819.l4EIJLPr009832@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85ps53fcm0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200705142004.l4EK4DHg012188@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85lkfrf91x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200705142102.l4EL2pHK013655@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <4649D75C.2090905@lorentey.hu> <464A6144.10905@lorentey.hu> <86ejlfpfdj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <861whepoq7.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <868xbmmbji.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <858xbjq320.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <861whai9k1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179798938 16729 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2007 01:55:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 01:55:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 22 03:55:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqJb3-0000Ft-MV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 03:55:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqJb3-0000lS-Bh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 21:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqJan-0000Vx-Jq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 21:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqJam-0000VJ-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 21:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqJam-0000Uw-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 21:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqJal-0003Dh-ID for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 21:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HqJac-0003ye-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 03:55:06 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 03:55:06 +0200 Original-Received: from miles.bader by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 03:55:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fencepost.gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop Cancel-Lock: sha1:/j4+z4NGC7V5ufNAwgRTOBeXE84= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71564 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: >> I was thinking of (let ((process-environment (cons FOO >> process-environment))) > > Do we actually have code like this around?t. Yes. > It would appear somewhat strange in pre-multitty since it more or > less assumes that process-environment can contain multiple mentions of > environment variables with only the first taking effect This usage style is explicitly supported by the C code which exports process-enviroment -- it only exports the first occurance of any given environment variable. Indeed, given this support, it's a much more elegant and efficient idiom for elisp than copy+setenv.... -Miles -- o The existentialist, not having a pillow, goes everywhere with the book by Sullivan, _I am going to spit on your graves_.