> On Nov 8, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote: > > The `(current-environment-variables)` visible in command-line `racket` seem > to be exactly what I see when I just do `env` in the shell. Makes sense. > > But the `(current-environment-variables)` in DrRacket differ quite a bit: > some are the same, some different, some missing, some new. > > 1) Where does DrRacket get its environment variables, if not from the > logged-in user?
IIRC, Mac has an apologetic moue towards unix-y things here: I believe there’s a special place in your home directory … or maybe it’s in ~/Library/Preferences, which would … okay, let me search. Okay, here you go: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x#588442 Basically, the new knowledge here is that this is not a DrR-specific issue; it’s a system-wide question. > > 2) Is there an environment variable that I can use to test if a program is > running in DrRacket? For instance, the "XPC_SERVICE_NAME" variable has the > value "org.racket-lang.DrRacket.39428". Though AFAIK that is a Mac OS > specific value. I’ll let someone else handle this one. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
