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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: setenv inside gemacs?
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Date: 5 Oct 88 18:09:07 GMT
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From article <860006@hpcljms.HP.COM>, by brians@hpcljms.HP.COM (Brian Sullivan):
 
>    I need to know if it is possible to set environment variable in GNU
> emacs.  I have set up some bindings to compile the file that I am
> editing but the compiler needs to have some environment variables set

Well, an apropos on "env" points to (among other things):

  process-environment's value is ([[my environment deleted]])

  Documentation:
  List of strings to append to environment of subprocesses that are started.
  Each string should have the format ENVVARNAME=VALUE.

> I notice that GNU emacs does have an eLisp
> fuction "getenv" but no "setenv" or "putenv".

Actually there is a setenv in environ.c, but it's enclosed in an #ifdef
MAINTAIN_ENVIRONMENT, which I imagine is not set by default.

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