Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 16:59, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/1/2009 4:08 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Dec 1 19:24, John Morrison wrote: > >>On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote: > >>>OK, my patch is attached. It anticipates the change to the default > >>>.bashrc file that we've been discussing in

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ken Brown on 12/1/2009 2:59 PM: > I agree. A revised patch is attached. > +You may therefore want to unset them by adding the following two lines > +to your .bashrc file: ~/.bashrc - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as we

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/1/2009 4:08 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 1 19:24, John Morrison wrote: On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote: OK, my patch is attached. It anticipates the change to the default .bashrc file that we've been discussing in the thread cited above. Hi Ken, While I think i

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 19:24, John Morrison wrote: > On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote: > > OK, my patch is attached. It anticipates the change to the default > > .bashrc file that we've been discussing in the thread cited above. > > Hi Ken, > > While I think it's a good idea to point out tha

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/1/2009 4:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote: >>> The discussion currently going on in the thread >>> >>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 >>> >>> makes me think that the section on env

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 11:32, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/1/2009 4:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote: > >>I would be willing to take a stab at writing a patch if the > >>developers think this would be useful. > > > >That sounds like a nice idea. > > OK, my patch is attached. It a

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/1/2009 4:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote: The discussion currently going on in the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 makes me think that the section on environment variables in the user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote: > The discussion currently going on in the thread > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 > > makes me think that the section on environment variables in the > user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) > could use some

Environment variable documentation

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
The discussion currently going on in the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 makes me think that the section on environment variables in the user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) could use some expansion. For example, it's not stated exp