From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Retrieving original value of enviroment variable HOME
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 08:54:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b8fd913-5f68-0726-abfd-f2b88e83a678@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49ac0f366628190337f80efccc25a6c6@vivaldi.net>
On 5/6/2020 5:43 PM, context@vivaldi.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> before I run ConTeXt, I set a (new) variable "HOME" to point to a
> particular directory.
>
> ConTeXt changes its value during startup - it sets its value to
> %USERPROFILE% - I guess it is to unify environment somehow for all
> platforms ConTeXt supports; probably here:
>
> ---- data-ini.lua, ln. ~86
> do
>
> local homedir = osgetenv(ostype == "windows" and 'USERPROFILE' or
> 'HOME') or ''
>
> if not homedir or homedir == "" then
> homedir = char(127) -- we need a value, later we wil trigger on it
> end
>
> homedir = file.collapsepath(homedir)
>
> ossetenv("HOME", homedir) -- can be used in unix cnf files
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<< HERE
> ossetenv("USERPROFILE",homedir) -- can be used in windows cnf files
>
> environment.homedir = homedir
>
> end
> ----
>
> But anyway - would it be possible to store the original value of HOME
> environment variable (if set) before it gets changed during
> initialization - e.g. to a Lua table?
>
> - I would need to work with the original value in run-time (Win7 / WinX;
> ConTeXt MkIV).
I'll add
environment.oldhome
being the original one (but no testing done here)
Hans
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-06 15:43 context
2020-05-07 6:54 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2020-05-07 10:30 ` context
2020-05-08 12:18 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-10 12:33 ` context
2020-05-10 15:20 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-11 7:44 ` context
2020-05-11 8:51 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-11 10:50 ` context
2020-05-11 10:54 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-05-11 13:36 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-05-11 10:58 ` Marco Patzer
2020-05-11 15:20 ` context
2020-05-11 15:57 ` context
2020-05-12 8:53 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-12 9:36 ` context
2020-05-12 11:53 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-14 7:47 ` context
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