Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS)

[Miles Bader]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> 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

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