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Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:01:45 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Markus Triska <address@hidden> writes:
>> Why would they care what it's value is though? I suspect it's just as
>> common to simply check for the variable's existance, not its value.
>
> Yes, that's also common (at least those programs aren't broken by the
> change). Other programs checking for "t": tcsh, Maude, zsh. For easy
> optional backwards compatibility, what do you think about making the
> new behaviour depend on a variable like "emacs-environment-variable"
> with possible values 'path (use path; default) and t (old behaviour)?
I agree with this proposal. Should the default be 'path or t?
- comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Markus Triska, 2006/11/03
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Paul Eggert, 2006/11/05
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Yidong Chong, 2006/11/06
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Miles Bader, 2006/11/06
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Markus Triska, 2006/11/07
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Kevin Rodgers, 2006/11/07
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/07
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Richard Stallman, 2006/11/07
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Chong Yidong, 2006/11/08
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Richard Stallman, 2006/11/08
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Chong Yidong, 2006/11/08
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Stefan Monnier, 2006/11/09
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Richard Stallman, 2006/11/09
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Chong Yidong, 2006/11/10
- Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable, Richard Stallman, 2006/11/10