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Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS)
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS) |
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Tue, 22 May 2007 23:26:10 +0200 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> The only thing that does not really look nice is deleting the first
> element of the shared tail global-process-environment: one would have
> to do the deletion the hard way, by doing something like
>
> Maybe one should start global-process-environment with a dummy entry.
>
> I think a dummy link whose car is nil would be an elegant solution.
An empty string, perhaps. I severely doubt that most loops through
process-environment will be prepared to encounter a non-string
argument (doing string-match on all encountered elements would be sort
of a natural operation). An empty string, in contrast, would probably
not do much harm, I suppose.
> Is there any way to check whether process-environment is
> terminal-local (the global binding), or let-bound? Maybe a
> solution can be manufactured around that.
>
> That would be extremely un-Lispy.
Well, yes. I am sifting through mediocre and bad solutions here. I'd
prefer straightforward elegant and mostly backward-compatible
solutions, but those are not easy to come by.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), (continued)
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/18
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Stefan Monnier, 2007/05/18
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/18
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Stefan Monnier, 2007/05/18
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/20
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Stefan Monnier, 2007/05/21
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/21
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Miles Bader, 2007/05/21
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/22
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Richard Stallman, 2007/05/22
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS),
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Richard Stallman, 2007/05/23
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/23
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Richard Stallman, 2007/05/24
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/24
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Eli Zaretskii, 2007/05/18
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Karoly Lorentey, 2007/05/17
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/18
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Karoly Lorentey, 2007/05/18
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/18
- Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS), Karoly Lorentey, 2007/05/18