> 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

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