From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please precede all environmental variables with EMACS_ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:20:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4781F12F.4010804@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199730032 31851 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 18:20:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 19:20:53 2008 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 1JBwab-0007J8-HA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:20:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBwaE-00077R-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBwa9-00076a-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBwa4-00074g-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:20:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBwa4-00074a-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBwa4-0004TH-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E36F2CF61E; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:20:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210843FE1; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:20:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0C86D6CAB6; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:20:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4781F12F.4010804@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:30:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:86507 Archived-At: > Help! Some megalomanic software has stolen the DISPLAY environmental > variable so Emacs/Emacs client will not work. > Could please environmental variables specific to Emacs be changed to begin > with EMACS_ ? For example change DISPLAY to EMACS_DISPLAY. > In my case I have > DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 > Emacs does not recognize that value. Should Emacs recognize it or should > Emacs use its own variable, named like EMACS_DISPLAY? > FYI, the value of the environmental variable DISPLAY is used by Emacs/Emacs > client in 23.0.50.1. Emacs does not recognize the value above. I have the nagging suspicion that there's a real bug lurking here somewhere, but the above doesn't help me track it down because I just don't understand it. Please write a real bug-report, with the usual recipe starting from "emacs -Q" explaining what happens when you do something and what you expected to happen instead. Stefan