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1 ;;; env.el --- functions to manipulate environment variables
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25 ;;; Commentary:
27 ;; UNIX processes inherit a list of name-to-string associations from their
28 ;; parents called their `environment'; these are commonly used to control
29 ;; program options. This package permits you to set environment variables
30 ;; to be passed to any sub-process run under Emacs.
32 ;; Note that the environment string `process-environment' is not
33 ;; decoded, but the args of `setenv' and `getenv' are normally
34 ;; multibyte text and get coding conversion.
36 ;;; Code:
38 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
40 ;; History list for environment variable names.
41 (defvar read-envvar-name-history nil)
43 (defun read-envvar-name (prompt &optional mustmatch)
44 "Read environment variable name, prompting with PROMPT.
45 Optional second arg MUSTMATCH, if non-nil, means require existing envvar name.
46 If it is also not t, RET does not exit if it does non-null completion."
47 (completing-read prompt
48 (mapcar (lambda (enventry)
49 (let ((str (substring enventry 0
50 (string-match "=" enventry))))
51 (if (multibyte-string-p str)
52 (decode-coding-string
53 str locale-coding-system t)
54 str)))
55 (append process-environment
56 ;;(frame-environment)
58 nil mustmatch nil 'read-envvar-name-history))
60 ;; History list for VALUE argument to setenv.
61 (defvar setenv-history nil)
64 (defun substitute-env-vars (string)
65 "Substitute environment variables referred to in STRING.
66 `$FOO' where FOO is an environment variable name means to substitute
67 the value of that variable. The variable name should be terminated
68 with a character not a letter, digit or underscore; otherwise, enclose
69 the entire variable name in braces. For instance, in `ab$cd-x',
70 `$cd' is treated as an environment variable.
72 Use `$$' to insert a single dollar sign."
73 (let ((start 0))
74 (while (string-match
75 (eval-when-compile
76 (rx (or (and "$" (submatch (1+ (regexp "[[:alnum:]_]"))))
77 (and "${" (submatch (minimal-match (0+ anything))) "}")
78 "$$")))
79 string start)
80 (cond ((match-beginning 1)
81 (let ((value (getenv (match-string 1 string))))
82 (setq string (replace-match (or value "") t t string)
83 start (+ (match-beginning 0) (length value)))))
84 ((match-beginning 2)
85 (let ((value (getenv (match-string 2 string))))
86 (setq string (replace-match (or value "") t t string)
87 start (+ (match-beginning 0) (length value)))))
89 (setq string (replace-match "$" t t string)
90 start (+ (match-beginning 0) 1)))))
91 string))
94 (defun setenv-internal (env variable value keep-empty)
95 "Set VARIABLE to VALUE in ENV, adding empty entries if KEEP-EMPTY.
96 Changes ENV by side-effect, and returns its new value."
97 (let ((pattern (concat "\\`" (regexp-quote variable) "\\(=\\|\\'\\)"))
98 (case-fold-search nil)
99 (scan env)
100 prev found)
101 ;; Handle deletions from the beginning of the list specially.
102 (if (and (null value)
103 (not keep-empty)
105 (stringp (car env))
106 (string-match pattern (car env)))
107 (cdr env)
108 ;; Try to find existing entry for VARIABLE in ENV.
109 (while (and scan (stringp (car scan)))
110 (when (string-match pattern (car scan))
111 (if value
112 (setcar scan (concat variable "=" value))
113 (if keep-empty
114 (setcar scan variable)
115 (setcdr prev (cdr scan))))
116 (setq found t
117 scan nil))
118 (setq prev scan
119 scan (cdr scan)))
120 (if (and (not found) (or value keep-empty))
121 (cons (if value
122 (concat variable "=" value)
123 variable)
124 env)
125 env))))
127 ;; Fixme: Should the environment be recoded if LC_CTYPE &c is set?
129 (defun setenv (variable &optional value substitute-env-vars)
130 "Set the value of the environment variable named VARIABLE to VALUE.
131 VARIABLE should be a string. VALUE is optional; if not provided or
132 nil, the environment variable VARIABLE will be removed.
134 Interactively, a prefix argument means to unset the variable, and
135 otherwise the current value (if any) of the variable appears at
136 the front of the history list when you type in the new value.
137 This function always replaces environment variables in the new
138 value when called interactively.
140 SUBSTITUTE-ENV-VARS, if non-nil, means to substitute environment
141 variables in VALUE with `substitute-env-vars', which see.
142 This is normally used only for interactive calls.
144 The return value is the new value of VARIABLE, or nil if
145 it was removed from the environment.
147 This function works by modifying `process-environment'.
149 As a special case, setting variable `TZ' calls `set-time-zone-rule' as
150 a side-effect."
151 (interactive
152 (if current-prefix-arg
153 (list (read-envvar-name "Clear environment variable: " 'exact) nil)
154 (let* ((var (read-envvar-name "Set environment variable: " nil))
155 (value (getenv var)))
156 (when value
157 (add-to-history 'setenv-history value))
158 ;; Here finally we specify the args to give call setenv with.
159 (list var
160 (read-from-minibuffer (format "Set %s to value: " var)
161 nil nil nil 'setenv-history
162 value)
163 t))))
164 (if (and (multibyte-string-p variable) locale-coding-system)
165 (let ((codings (find-coding-systems-string (concat variable value))))
166 (unless (or (eq 'undecided (car codings))
167 (memq (coding-system-base locale-coding-system) codings))
168 (error "Can't encode `%s=%s' with `locale-coding-system'"
169 variable (or value "")))))
170 (and value
171 substitute-env-vars
172 (setq value (substitute-env-vars value)))
173 (if (multibyte-string-p variable)
174 (setq variable (encode-coding-string variable locale-coding-system)))
175 (if (and value (multibyte-string-p value))
176 (setq value (encode-coding-string value locale-coding-system)))
177 (if (string-match "=" variable)
178 (error "Environment variable name `%s' contains `='" variable))
179 (if (string-equal "TZ" variable)
180 (set-time-zone-rule value))
181 (setq process-environment (setenv-internal process-environment
182 variable value t))
183 value)
185 (defun getenv (variable &optional frame)
186 "Get the value of environment variable VARIABLE.
187 VARIABLE should be a string. Value is nil if VARIABLE is undefined in
188 the environment. Otherwise, value is a string.
190 If optional parameter FRAME is non-nil, then it should be a
191 frame. This function will look up VARIABLE in its 'environment
192 parameter.
194 Otherwise, this function searches `process-environment' for
195 VARIABLE. If it is not found there, then it continues the search
196 in the environment list of the selected frame."
197 (interactive (list (read-envvar-name "Get environment variable: " t)))
198 (let ((value (getenv-internal (if (multibyte-string-p variable)
199 (encode-coding-string
200 variable locale-coding-system)
201 variable)
202 (and frame
203 (assq 'environment
204 (frame-parameters frame))))))
205 (if (and enable-multibyte-characters value)
206 (setq value (decode-coding-string value locale-coding-system)))
207 (when (called-interactively-p 'interactive)
208 (message "%s" (if value value "Not set")))
209 value))
211 (provide 'env)
213 ;; arch-tag: b7d6a8f7-bc81-46db-8e39-8d721d4ed0b8
214 ;;; env.el ends here