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author | Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> |
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date | Fri, 07 Aug 1992 12:28:53 +0000 |
parents | 38b2499cb3e9 |
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;;; setenv.el --- functions to manipulate environment variables. ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Last-Modified: 16 Mar 1992 ;; Keywords: extensions ;;; Copyright Free Software Foundation 1991 ;;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;;; any later version. ;;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to ;;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ;;; Code: (defun setenv (variable value) "Set the value of the environment variable named VARIABLE to VALUE. VARIABLE and VALUE should both be strings. This function works by modifying process-environment." (if (string-match "=" variable) (error "name of environment variable contains an '=' character") (let ((pattern (concat "^" (regexp-quote (concat variable "=")))) (scan process-environment)) (while scan (cond ((string-match pattern (car scan)) (setcar scan (concat variable "=" value)) (setq scan nil)) ((null (setq scan (cdr scan))) (setq process-environment (cons (concat variable "=" value) process-environment)))))))) (provide 'setenv) ;;; setenv.el ends here