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- ;;; env.el --- functions to manipulate environment variables.
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1991, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; Maintainer: FSF
- ;; Keywords: processes, unix
-
- ;; 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, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; UNIX processes inherit a list of name-to-string associations from their
- ;; parents called their `environment'; these are commonly used to control
- ;; program options. This package permits you to set environment variables
- ;; to be passed to any sub-process run under Emacs.
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- ;; History list for environment variable names.
- (defvar read-envvar-name-history nil)
-
- (defun read-envvar-name (prompt &optional mustmatch)
- "Read environment variable name, prompting with PROMPT.
- Optional second arg MUSTMATCH, if non-nil, means require existing envvar name.
- If it is also not t, RET does not exit if it does non-null completion."
- (completing-read prompt
- (mapcar (function
- (lambda (enventry)
- (list (substring enventry 0
- (string-match "=" enventry)))))
- process-environment)
- nil mustmatch nil 'read-envvar-name-history))
-
- ;; History list for VALUE argument to setenv.
- (defvar setenv-history nil)
-
- ;;;###autoload
- (defun setenv (variable &optional value unset)
- "Set the value of the environment variable named VARIABLE to VALUE.
- VARIABLE should be a string. VALUE is optional; if not provided or is
- `nil', the environment variable VARIABLE will be removed.
-
- Interactively, a prefix argument means to unset the variable.
- Interactively, the current value (if any) of the variable
- appears at the front of the history list when you type in the new value.
-
- This function works by modifying `process-environment'."
- (interactive
- (if current-prefix-arg
- (list (read-envvar-name "Clear environment variable: " 'exact) nil t)
- (let* ((var (read-envvar-name "Set environment variable: " nil))
- (oldval (getenv var))
- newval
- oldhist)
- ;; Don't put the current value on the history
- ;; if it is already there.
- (if (equal oldval (car setenv-history))
- (setq oldval nil))
- ;; Now if OLDVAL is non-nil, we should add it to the history.
- (if oldval
- (setq setenv-history (cons oldval setenv-history)))
- (setq oldhist setenv-history)
- (setq newval (read-from-minibuffer (format "Set %s to value: " var)
- nil nil nil 'setenv-history))
- ;; If we added the current value to the history, remove it.
- ;; Note that read-from-minibuffer may have added the new value.
- ;; Don't remove that!
- (if oldval
- (if (eq oldhist setenv-history)
- (setq setenv-history (cdr setenv-history))
- (setcdr setenv-history (cdr (cdr setenv-history)))))
- ;; Here finally we specify the args to give call setenv with.
- (list var newval))))
- (if unset (setq value nil))
- (if (string-match "=" variable)
- (error "Environment variable name `%s' contains `='" variable)
- (let ((pattern (concat "\\`" (regexp-quote (concat variable "="))))
- (case-fold-search nil)
- (scan process-environment)
- found)
- (if (string-equal "TZ" variable)
- (set-time-zone-rule value))
- (while scan
- (cond ((string-match pattern (car scan))
- (setq found t)
- (if (eq nil value)
- (setq process-environment (delq (car scan) process-environment))
- (setcar scan (concat variable "=" value)))
- (setq scan nil)))
- (setq scan (cdr scan)))
- (or found
- (if value
- (setq process-environment
- (cons (concat variable "=" value)
- process-environment)))))))
-
- (provide 'env)
-
- ;;; env.el ends here
-