On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Russ Cox <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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
I'm unsure if this conversation is about Plan 9 or plan9port, but in any case I've used Local for lots of other things on Plan 9, particularly name space manipulations. There, I don't understand why it needs restrictions. Or are you just saying that on plan9port you need to do magic so you might as well catalog the tricks? In that case, I understand. -rob
