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AUTHORCOPY
-
The name of a file used to archive news articles posted with the GNUS
package.
CDPATH
-
Used by the
cd command to search for the directory you specify,
when you specify a relative directory name.
DOMAINNAME
-
The name of the Internet domain that the machine running Emacs is
located in. Used by the GNUS package.
EMACS_UNIBYTE
-
Defining this environment variable directs Emacs to do almost everything
with single-byte buffers and strings. It is equivalent to using the
`--unibyte' command-line option on each invocation. See section Initial Options.
EMACSDATA
-
Used to initialize the variable
data-directory used to locate the
architecture-independent files that come with Emacs. Setting this
variable overrides the setting in `paths.h' when Emacs was built.
EMACSLOADPATH
-
A colon-separated list of directories from which to load Emacs Lisp
files. Setting this variable overrides the setting in `paths.h'
when Emacs was built.
EMACSLOCKDIR
-
The directory that Emacs places lock files--files used to protect
users from editing the same files simultaneously. Setting this variable
overrides the setting in `paths.h' when Emacs was built.
EMACSPATH
-
The location of Emacs-specific binaries. Setting this variable
overrides the setting in `paths.h' when Emacs was built.
ESHELL
-
Used for shell-mode to override the
SHELL environment variable.
HISTFILE
-
The name of the file that shell commands are saved in between logins.
This variable defaults to `~/.history' if you use (t)csh as shell,
to `~/.bash_history' if you use bash, to `~/.sh_history' if
you use ksh, and to `~/.history' otherwise.
HOME
-
The location of the user's files in the directory tree; used for
expansion of file names starting with a tilde (`~'). On MS-DOS, it
defaults to the directory from which Emacs was started, with `/bin'
removed from the end if it was present.
HOSTNAME
-
The name of the machine that Emacs is running on.
INCPATH
-
A colon-separated list of directories. Used by the
complete package
to search for files.
INFOPATH
-
A colon-separated list of directories holding info files. Setting this
variable overrides the setting in `paths.el' when Emacs was built.
LANG
-
LC_ALL
-
LC_CTYPE
-
The user's preferred locale. A locale name which contains
`8859-n', `8859_n' or `8859n', where
n is between 1 and 4, automatically specifies the
`Latin-n' language environment when Emacs starts up. If
n is 9, that specifies `Latin-5'.
LOGNAME
-
The user's login name. See also
USER.
MAIL
-
The name of the user's system mail inbox.
MAILRC
-
Name of file containing mail aliases. This defaults to
`~/.mailrc'.
MH
-
Name of setup file for the mh system. This defaults to
`~/.mh_profile'.
NAME
-
The real-world name of the user.
NNTPSERVER
-
The name of the news server. Used by the mh and GNUS packages.
ORGANIZATION
-
The name of the organization to which you belong. Used for setting the
`Organization:' header in your posts from the GNUS package.
PATH
-
A colon-separated list of directories in which executables reside. (On
MS-DOS, it is semicolon-separated instead.) This variable is used to
set the Emacs Lisp variable
exec-path which you should consider
to use instead.
PWD
-
If set, this should be the default directory when Emacs was started.
REPLYTO
-
If set, this specifies an initial value for the variable
mail-default-reply-to. See section Mail Header Fields.
SAVEDIR
-
The name of a directory in which news articles are saved by default.
Used by the GNUS package.
SHELL
-
The name of an interpreter used to parse and execute programs run from
inside Emacs.
TERM
-
The name of the terminal that Emacs is running on. The variable must be
set unless Emacs is run in batch mode. On MS-DOS, it defaults to
`internal', which specifies a built-in terminal emulation that
handles the machine's own display.
TERMCAP
-
The name of the termcap library file describing how to program the
terminal specified by the
TERM variable. This defaults to
`/etc/termcap'.
TMPDIR
-
Used by the Emerge package as a prefix for temporary files.
TZ
-
This specifies the current time zone and possibly also daylight savings
information. On MS-DOS, the default is based on country code; see the
file `msdos.c' for details.
USER
-
The user's login name. See also
LOGNAME. On MS-DOS, this
defaults to `root'.
VERSION_CONTROL
-
Used to initialize the
version-control variable (see section Single or Numbered Backups).
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