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Re: $HOME var


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: $HOME var
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 11:24:34 +0200

> From: Chris McMahan <cmcmahan+n@one.net>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 07 Mar 2003 16:38:33 -0500
> 
> So to set your HOME variable from within emacs,
> (setenv "HOME" "c:/documents\ and\ settings/username")

I don't recomment this: it creates a dangerous disparity between the
environment used by Emacs and the environment passed by Emacs to its
subprocesses.  In the archives of this thread, you will find many
examples of trouble into which this could get unsuspecting users.




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