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MAILRC environment variable
From: |
Stephen Eglen |
Subject: |
MAILRC environment variable |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:42:16 +0100 |
Hello,
I just decided to move my .mailrc from my home directory, and went
looking for how to inform Emacs of where my mailrc file now lives.
The doc string for mail-aliases tells me:
Alist of mail address aliases,
or t meaning should be initialized from your mail aliases file.
(The file's name is normally `~/.mailrc', but your MAILRC environment
variable can override that name.)
[By the way, should this doc string mention `mail-personal-alias-file'?
Perhaps something like:
The file's name is normally `~/.mailrc', but your MAILRC environment
variable or the lisp variable `mail-personal-alias-file' can override
that name.
Which would take preference if both are set? Or would both be read?]
I'm a bit bemused as to how $MAILRC is checked. If I do a recursive
grep through the CVS tree, I don't see references of the form (getenv
"MAILRC"). Am I missing something?
I'd prefer to set $MAILRC since mail-personal-alias-file is not yet
recognised in XEmacs. (Instead, it has mail-abbrev-mailrc-file.)
Thanks, Stephen
- MAILRC environment variable,
Stephen Eglen <=