Re: enviromental variables into dot.emacs

[daniele.g]

Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> writes:

>> My aim is to unify my conf files making them picking as many values as
>> possible from the same place.
>
> Same here.  I have COMPUTERNAME set to different values on different
> computers, so my init file contains
>
> (Cond ((string= (getenv "COMPUTERNAME") "home")
>        ... home computer specific stuff ...)
>       ((String= (getenv "COMPUTERNAME") "office")
>        ... office computer specific stuff ...)
>       ((String= (getenv "COMPUTERNAME") "netbook")
>        ... netbook specific stuff ...))

Forgive me, but my elisp skills are quite low. Can I use a syntax like
this?

(setq var (getenv $VAR))
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