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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:29:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: Problem with mintty-0.4.1-1 and orpie
From: Matt Wozniski <godlygeek@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> There's a bit in the TIPS section of the manual on how to set any
> environment variable using the shell's -c option, e.g.:
>
> mintty sh -c "TERM=xterm-256color emacs"

Hm.  Maybe I'm missing something, but - isn't this a place where using
/bin/env would make more sense than dealing with all the extra
processing required to launch a shell?  For instance,

    mintty env TERM=xterm-256color emacs

~Matt

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