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setting enviromment variable
From: |
henry atting |
Subject: |
setting enviromment variable |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:33:56 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
setting environment variables does not work anymore.
I do it like this:
;; ledger file variable
(setenv "LEDGER_FILE" (concat (getenv "LEDGER_FILE") "~/ledger/ledger.dat"))
;; printer variable
(setenv "PRINTER" (concat (getenv "PRINTER") "HL2030"))
Evaluating produces:
"~/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat"
"HL2030HL2030HL2030HL2030"
Hence I cannot print or use ledger from the eshell command line:
While parsing environment variable option
'LEDGER_FILE=~/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat': Error: The ledger
file '/home/atting/ledger/ledger.dat~/ledger/ledger.dat' does not exist
or is not readable
(GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1)
henry
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