Re: Emacs shell support

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 27.10.2010 5:47, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> On 10/26/10 12:31 AM, Raju Tatti wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I use Emacs extensivelly. When we inovke the emacs from terminal,
> > emacs will get
> > the all environment variable of parent terminal.
> > If we inovke shell in emacs and set some environment variables locally by
> > sourcing scripts or alias command, the opening a file using these
> > environment
> > varialbe using $ doesn't work.
> > What needs to be done to make emacs to see this locally set env.
>
> The shell invoked by M-x shell is a child process than the emacs process,
> and modifying the environment of a child process will not affect the parent
> process.
>
> If you want to modify the environment of the emacs process, use setenv
> in ~/.emacs.
>
> That will also affect any child processes, including shells, invoked after
> the environment variable was set.
Really you can not transfer env variable from subprocess to parent.

But if you really want you can invoke 'set' command in shell and save output
in file which can be accessed by Emacs.