From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme Local command on p9p
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:32:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimtRMQ0_iicjp2XPOTAVpD9BWm+izXp+RTDAY9S@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik7uCQ5XyUeANzs-=x4jat2VW-g1-TtwAhrC+My@mail.gmail.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-23 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 10:39 hugo rivera
2011-02-23 11:21 ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-02-23 13:13 ` hugo rivera
2011-02-23 14:34 ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-02-23 13:32 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2011-02-23 16:57 ` Rob Pike
2011-02-23 17:09 ` Russ Cox
2011-02-23 17:35 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-25 15:32 ` Russ Cox
2011-02-25 15:44 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-25 15:51 ` roger peppe
2011-02-25 19:01 ` David Leimbach
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