Re: setenv

[Andreas Schwab]

tfb@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) writes:

|> In Emacs 20 (and 21), setenv modifies process-environment.  But it's
|> named after a C function that affects the current process, not just
|> child processes.  While it's documented as such, I think it's a
|> misfeature because its name implies other behavior (that it acts like
|> the C function of the same name).  This also means there's no way to
|> affect the environment of the currently running Emacs from Elisp.
|> 
|> My solution: getenv should be renamed to get-environment, setenv
|> renamed to set-environment, and getenv and setenv changed to behave as
|> their C namesakes.

In which way would get/setenv be different from get/set-environment from
the Lisp programmer's point of view?  AFAIK there is no way to directly
access the environment of the Emacs process.

Andreas.

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