Re: [9fans] acme Local command on p9p

[Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> Local In the Plan 9 acme, this prefix causes a command to be run in
>> acme'sown file name space and environment variable group. On
>> Unix this is impossible...
>>
>> is there any other way to define environment variables for acme while
>> it's running?
>> On plan9, Local var=val sets var and then all other commands I execute
>> with a middle click see $var. On some ocasions this is very useful.
>
> It might be a good idea to change the implementation of Local
> to look for the two forms
>
>    name=value...
>    cd directory
>
> and implement only those.  Please file an issue.
>
> Russ

I'm unsure if this conversation is about Plan 9 or plan9port, but in
any case I've used Local for lots of other things on Plan 9,
particularly name space manipulations.  There, I don't understand why
it needs restrictions.

Or are you just saying that on plan9port you need to do magic so you
might as well catalog the tricks?  In that case, I understand.

-rob