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Re: $HOME var


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: $HOME var
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:31:30 +0200

> From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:07:35 -0700
> > 
> > I don't recomment this: it creates a dangerous disparity between the
> > environment used by Emacs and the environment passed by Emacs to its
> > subprocesses.  In the archives of this thread, you will find many
> > examples of trouble into which this could get unsuspecting users.
> 
> How could that be?  setenv updates process-environment, which is the 
> environment
> passed to subprocesses -- isn't it?

Yes.  But the environment used by Emacs itself is unaffected by
setenv.




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