From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: NT Emacs and Cygwin
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:02:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c4d585$Blat.v2.2.2$49d6d840@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30uh9eF34527lU1@uni-berlin.de> (message from Elvin Peterson on Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:24:44 +0530)
> From: Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson@yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:24:44 +0530
>
> I am using
>
> (setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") ";C:\\cygwin\\bin"))
>
> to add cygwin's path, but emacs cannot find the executables.
setenv modifies the environment that Emacs passes to its subprocesses,
but doesn't affect the environment Emacs itself uses. Thus, the value
of PATH seen by Emacs will not change after the above.
You need to modify PATH outside of Emacs, and before Emacs is invoked,
to get what you want.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-28 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-28 15:54 NT Emacs and Cygwin Elvin Peterson
2004-11-28 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2030.1101672934.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-28 20:15 ` David Kastrup
2004-11-29 4:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2088.1101704044.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-29 10:38 ` Håkon Alstadheim
2004-11-29 18:27 ` Elvin Peterson
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