From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: exec-path and PATH
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:36:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ei63hxsz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vczfr0o0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:10:07 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Maybe we should consider the possibility to automatically set PATH
> from exec-path each time Emacs invokes a subprocess, because this
> issue comes up time and again in gnu.emacs.help.
This would be helpful, I think.
Can we set PATH to exec-path for the duration of the shell
execution? IIRC, if you change the PATH in a cmd session it only applies to
that session. Is it possible to something similar here?
>> Maybe this is a silly question, but why are some of the programs invoked
>> different than others?
>
> Because the shell has features ready for our use that would be a
> wasted effort to re-implement in Lisp or C. E.g., complex
> redirection, pipes, etc.
That makes sense. Thanks.
>> PS: Here is a small docfix patch for process.c for review:
>
> This is obviously correct, so please commit it on the emacs-23
> branch.
OK.
> "PATH" is a literal name of an environment variable, that's why it is
> in caps. But `exec-path' is spelled in lower case, so please don't
> up-case it here. Also, please enclose in quotes, so it produces a
> link in Emacs. I would even say
>
>
> It is searched for in `exec-path' (which see).
>
> Thanks.
OK, I will change it.
Thanks,
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-19 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-19 3:19 exec-path and PATH Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-19 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-19 16:36 ` Christoph Scholtes [this message]
2011-03-19 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-19 19:50 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-19 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-20 19:45 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-20 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-20 20:46 ` Eric Hanchrow
2011-03-21 14:04 ` Eric Schulte
2011-03-20 22:44 ` Wojciech Meyer
2011-03-19 16:49 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-19 17:18 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-19 17:23 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-19 18:52 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-03-20 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-19 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-20 2:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-20 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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