Re: [dev] environment variables versus runtime configuration (rc) files versus X resources

[Charlie Kester]

On Mon 03 Nov 2014 at 14:26:39 PDT Greg Reagle wrote:

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014, at 04:11 PM, Charlie Kester wrote:

Environment variables are essentially global variables, visible to every
program and not just the one you want to configure.

Not necessarily.  If you set them in .profile or .bashrc or .xsession
then yes, but each program processes its own rc file.  Other programs

would not be affected.

Good point.