Re: Please precede all environmental variables with EMACS_

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Mike Mattie wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:30:23 +0100
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Help! Some megalomanic software has stolen the DISPLAY environmental 
> > variable so Emacs/Emacs client will not work.
> >
> > Could please environmental variables specific to Emacs be changed to 
> > begin with EMACS_ ? For example change DISPLAY to EMACS_DISPLAY.
> >
> > In my case I have
> >
> >    DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> >
> > Emacs does not recognize that value. Should Emacs recognize it or
> > should Emacs use its own variable, named like EMACS_DISPLAY?
>
> AFAIK DISPLAY is interpreted by xlib not emacs. localhost is redundant.
> DISPLAY=":0.0" is the typical default for a local server. I can't even
> think of a Emacs environment variable that isn't prefixed e.g EMACSLOADPATH.

Thanks Mike. I should have said that this is on w32.

I have just filed a bug report.

PS: ALTERNATE_EDITOR is not prefixed with EMACS_.