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From: jjd@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (James J Dempsey)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: setenv inside gemacs?
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Date: 5 Oct 88 18:14:04 GMT
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>> To: unix-emacs@bbn.com
>> Date: 4 Oct 88 22:43:52 GMT
>> From: Brian Sullivan <hp-sde!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpclisp!hpcljms!brians@hplabs.hp.com>
>> Subject: setenv inside gemacs?
>> 
>>    I need to know if it is possible to set environment variable in GNU emacs.  I

From what I can tell, if you define MAINTAIN_ENVIRONMENT in your
src/config.h, then you get the behaviour you are looking for -- that
is to say there is a setenv elisp function.

However, I don't find any documentation for MAINTAIN_ENVIRONMENT.
Stephen Gildea (gildea@bbn.com) asked bug-gnu-emacs about it and got
no responses.  However, I did try building an emacs with
MAINTAIN_ENVIRONMENT defined and it seemed to work fine.

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