Re: [PATCH] Buffer-local process environments

[Stephen Leake]

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed,  1 Sep 2021 at 03:42, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> Ada has a similar situation; GPR_PROJECT_PATH specifies the path to
>> search for dependent libraries, and is per-project.
>
> Great, so we have some more evidence that support for project-specific
> env vars is a relevant feature.
>
>> The GNU ELPA package wisi takes an intermediate approach; it maintains a
>> list of project-specific environment variables in the project object,
>> and let-binds them in process-environment whenever it runs a process for
>> the project.
>
> If I understand correctly, this works only when launching the WisiToken
> program, am I correct?

No, any process. In ada-mode, that includes the compiler and the cross
reference tool.

Perhaps you meant using wisi requires using WisiToken to generate a
parser from a grammar; that's mostly true. There are some things you can
do with wisi that don't require a grammar, but the main focus is on
exploiting the parser.

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