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bug#58137: 28.1; M-x setenv RET PATH RET should default to the current $


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#58137: 28.1; M-x setenv RET PATH RET should default to the current $PATH
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:42:23 +0000



I wish M-x setenv, when setting a variable that already has a value, defaulted to that value (instead of the empty string).

This would make it easier to make minor adjustments to a long messy value. The history is already there (M-p), but it's input history. If the variable was initially set outside of Emacs, it won't be in history.


That's what Emacs calls "future history", which you can get with M-x setenv RET PATH RET M-n. It defaults to the value of (getenv "PATH"). Is that what you want?





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