From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
Cc: 23453@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#23453: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp does not work on Windows even after installing GNU find and grep
Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 19:52:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83shxwh2gq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY0XuPqmfUfNT6X7pGnQ9sJSXSYrcmoRT0ZcCGfcPOQrqw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Kaushal Modi on Thu, 05 May 2016 16:36:00 +0000)
> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 16:36:00 +0000
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, "23453@debbugs.gnu.org" <23453@debbugs.gnu.org>
>
> > I have had this in my config and it works fine (for a different executable chrome.exe):
> >
> > (let ((chrome-path "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/"))
> > (setq exec-path (append exec-path `(,chrome-path)))
> > (setq browse-url-generic-program (executable-find "chrome")))
>
> Bad idea, as I explained in my earlier message. You need to change
> PATH _outside_ of Emacs.
>
> Well, as mentioned earlier, changing the exec-path and doing setenv PATH from within emacs works just
> fine.
Suit yourself, but my grey hair says this has subtle problems. You
are welcome to wait for them to happen, of course ;-) A lesson
learned from your own experience is much more vivid that if you learn
from that of others.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-04 19:39 bug#23453: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp does not work on Windows even after installing GNU find and grep Kaushal Modi
2016-05-04 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 19:56 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-04 20:24 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-04 21:14 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-04 21:39 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-04 22:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 22:30 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-05 1:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-05 16:23 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-05 2:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-05 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-05 16:36 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-05 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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