Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewsh!ho5cad!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: apply, mapcar, lack of setenv Message-ID: Date: 2 Jun 89 11:53:30 GMT References: Sender: nntp@cbnewsh.ATT.COM Distribution: comp Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 11 In-reply-to: csuwn@cu.warwick.ac.uk's message of 2 Jun 89 03:14:13 GMT In article csuwn@cu.warwick.ac.uk (Max) writes: > I was writing some code - and I needed to change the environment of > emacs just before starting a new sub-process. I found the function > getenv - but the partner setenv just did not seem to exist!! The availability of "setenv" is a compile-time option. To get it, make sure you have "#define MAINTAIN_ENVIRONMENT" in the config.h stuff. I can't think of a good reason to leave this out, but someone must have, since it is not the default. -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill