GNU bug report logs - #1615
(info "(emacs)Environment") should note how to remove ENV variables too

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:25:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1615: (info "(emacs)Environment") should note how to remove ENV   variables too
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:12:51 -0700

jidanni <at> jidanni.org wrote:
> (info "(emacs)Environment") should note how to remove ENV variables
> too:
> 
>    Inside Emacs, the command `M-x getenv' gets the value of an
> environment variable.  `M-x setenv' sets OR REMOVES a variable in the Emacs

I suggest:

   Inside Emacs, the command `M-x getenv' gets the value of an
environment variable.  `M-x setenv' sets a variable in the Emacs
environment, and `C-u M-x setenv' removes a variable.

>      setenv ORGANIZATION "not very much"
> USE UNSET TO REMOVE them.

Huh?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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