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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:32:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] acme Local command on p9p
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>
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> 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