Re: Emacs shell support

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

On 10/26/10 12:31 AM, Raju Tatti wrote:
> Hi,
> I use Emacs extensivelly. When we inovke the emacs from terminal, emacs will get
> the all environment variable of parent terminal.
> If we inovke shell in emacs and set some environment variables locally by
> sourcing scripts or alias command, the opening a file using these environment
> varialbe using $ doesn't work.
> What needs to be done to make emacs to see this locally set env.

The shell invoked by M-x shell is a child process than the emacs process,
and modifying the environment of a child process will not affect the parent
process.

If you want to modify the environment of the emacs process, use setenv
in ~/.emacs.

That will also affect any child processes, including shells, invoked after
the environment variable was set.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA