Re: Adding MIME viewer to variable instead of .mailcap

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> écrit:
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> > Ah.  The easiest solution seems to be to put (setenv "EMACS_RUNNING"
> > "1") in the ~/.emacs file and then test this environment variable.

> Maybe thats the easiest, but I was looking for this variable. I know it
> exists becourse someone here adviced me to use it in a discussion here
> on the list last autumn.  If it does not exists anymore, then I will use
> RFC 1524, but until then...  Doesn't *anyone* know if such a variable
> exists or not?

This is only mildly related to your question, but I think Emacs defines
the environment variable EMACS to `t' at least within the shell spawn
through `M-x shell'.  I'm using EMACS from login to hold the path to the
Emacs executable I want, and Emacs was overriding the value with `t',
breaking some later scripts called from within Emacs.  After I reported
the problem, Richard told me he was to leave the variable undisturbed if
it already existed (if I remember correctly, this was a while ago).

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