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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: $HOME var |
Date: | Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:07:35 -0700 |
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From: Chris McMahan <cmcmahan+n@one.net> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Date: 07 Mar 2003 16:38:33 -0500 So to set your HOME variable from within emacs, (setenv "HOME" "c:/documents\ and\ settings/username")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? -- <a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
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