Update 'doom env' docs #2835

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Henrik Lissner 2020-04-15 00:14:08 -04:00
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@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ them manually from your private config with the `doom-load-envvars-file'
function."))
"Creates or regenerates your envvars file.
The envvars file is created by scraping your (interactive) shell environment
into newline-delimited KEY=VALUE pairs. Typically by running '$SHELL -ic env'
(or '$SHELL -c set' on windows). Doom loads this file at startup (if it exists)
to ensure Emacs mirrors your shell environment (particularly to ensure PATH and
The envvars file is created by scraping the current shell environment into
newline-delimited KEY=VALUE pairs. Typically by running '$SHELL -ic env' (or
'$SHELL -c set' on windows). Doom loads this file at startup (if it exists) to
ensure Emacs mirrors your shell environment (particularly to ensure PATH and
SHELL are correctly set).
This is useful in cases where you cannot guarantee that Emacs (or the daemon)