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lisp/env.el

+;;; -*-Emacs-Lisp-*- Functions to manipulate environment variables.
+;;; Copyright Free Software Foundation 1991
+
+;;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
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+;;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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+;;; any later version.
+
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+;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+
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+
+(provide 'setenv)
+
+(defun setenv (variable value)
+  "Set the value of the environment variable named VARIABLE to VALUE.
+VARIABLE and VALUE should both be strings.
+This function works by modifying process-environment."
+  (if (string-match "=" variable)
+      (error "name of environment variable contains an '=' character")
+    (let ((pattern (concat "^" (regexp-quote (concat variable "="))))
+	  (scan process-environment))
+      (while scan
+	(cond
+	 ((string-match pattern (car scan))
+	  (setcar scan (concat variable "=" value))
+	  (setq scan nil))
+	 ((null (setq scan (cdr scan)))
+	  (setq process-environment
+		(cons (concat variable "=" value) process-environment))))))))