Robert,

Thanks for this, I shall bear this in mind the next time I add a program to
the path. I am finding emacs a big learning experience.

Graham

On 24 Jan 2007 06:25:27 -0800, Robert Thorpe <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
wrote:
>
> On Jan 24, 1:02 pm, "Graham Smith" <myotis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Robert,
> >
> > Thanks, that narrows it down, if I re-install emacs I shall know where
> to
> > look.
>
> Some tips:-
> * The path is needed exactly to the executable, in Cygwin for example
> C:\cygwin\bin\
> * The path must be separated by ";"s if a mistake is made in doing this
> earlier in the path variable it propagates until the next ;
> * A new path only goes into effect when you click OK in the dialog box.
> Then it only goes into effect for new programs from that time.  Ones
> currently running are not affected.
> * The environmental variables Window gives "system variables" and "user
> variables".  For most Emacs purpose this doesn't matter since Emacs
> will be run as whatever user you are.  But for some programs it matters
> because they run sub-processes as system tasks.
>
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