Re: Improve System.Environment haddocks

On 23/01/2012 20:19, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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17:52:34< goodgrue> Is there a way to change the environment variables associated with Xmonad.Prompt.Shell at runtime? e.g. I'd like to be able to modify $http_proxy and have that affect subsequently launched processes. 17:55:31< gwern> goodgrue: that'd be kind of hard. you could prepend a mpodification of $HTTP_PROXY to each command 17:56:10< gwern> ideally you'd modify xmonad's own environment 17:56:33< goodgrue> gwern: yeah, the latter is what I was thinking of. is that possible? 17:57:08< gwern> shell uses `getEnv` from System.Environment but there's no setEnv! 17:57:21< gwern> if there were, you could probably bind it to a key and use a prompt 17:58:44< goodgrue> Hm...sounds like this may be a nice piece of missing functionality. is there any reason you can think of that i wouldn't be able to implement setEnv myself? 17:59:04< gwern> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3587 17:59:14< gwern> looks like 'putEnv' may be the real name

Ping. This was a very simple patch; am I really going to have to file a bug and everything?

No objections to this doc fix yet...

Sorry for the delay, I'll push it shortly. Cheers, Simon