From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:58:00 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F7364E8.3060209@yahoo.com> References: <3F720A32.9030400@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064527722 31862 80.91.224.253 (25 Sep 2003 22:08:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 26 00:08:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2eHw-0002U4-00 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A2eAJ-0002HL-Do for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:00:47 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1064527072 6717002 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116882 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12808 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12808 John Russell wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: > > >>Robert Pollard wrote: >> >> >>>Hello everyone, >>>I am curious as to why my exec path is not expanding the PATH >>>variable. Does it expand it when it uses it or should it be >>>expanded in the exec-path variable? >>>I cannot get a directory listing and as per a previous post I get an >>>error that it can't find the ls program. Could this be the cause? >>>exec-path's value is >>>("/$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin" "$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin" "$PATH" >>>"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin" >>>"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec") >>> >>Hmmm. What do (getenv "SYBASE"), (getenv "SYBASE_OCS"), (getenv "SYBASE_ASE"), >>and (getenv "PATH") return? > > They return the value of the environment variable of the argument. That's what they should return, but I asked Robert to check since the variable references and not the actual values were put into exec-path. -- Kevin Rodgers