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Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable


From: Chong Yidong
Subject: Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:01:45 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux)

Markus Triska <address@hidden> writes:

>> Why would they care what it's value is though?  I suspect it's just as
>> common to simply check for the variable's existance, not its value.
>
> Yes, that's also common (at least those programs aren't broken by the
> change). Other programs checking for "t": tcsh, Maude, zsh. For easy
> optional backwards compatibility, what do you think about making the
> new behaviour depend on a variable like "emacs-environment-variable"
> with possible values 'path (use path; default) and t (old behaviour)?

I agree with this proposal.  Should the default be 'path or t?





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