From: Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:12:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <615D3DBB-03E1-11D8-A446-000A957A7EA8@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86d6cztt2w.fsf@slowfox.dyndns.org>
Hey Kai,
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com> writes:
>
>> 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 guess that $PATH should be expanded already. I think that
> exec-path is initialized from $PATH.
You are correct!
>
> In the shell where you start Emacs, have a look at $PATH. Does it
> contain them "$SYBASE" strings literally, dollar-sign and all?
Technically, I don't start Emacs from a shell since it is a Mac OS X
app but in a round about way it starts from my home, which does have
the expanded versions of the path names. If I go to the terminal and
printenv for PATH it has the path names expanded out.
>
> Maybe PATH="$PATH" or setenv PATH "$PATH" might be useful things to
> type in the shell before starting Emacs.
I believe it is correct. However, I don't know why Emacs doesn't see
it the same. Maybe it expands the variables before it uses and it is
some other problem??? I don't know what's is going on. For now, I'm
dragging the documents to Emacs instead of using Dired to find files.
Thanks,
Robert
>
> Kai
>
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[not found] <mailman.654.1064432009.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-09-24 21:18 ` [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding Kevin Rodgers
2003-09-25 15:38 ` John Russell
2003-09-25 21:58 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-21 16:16 ` Robert Pollard
2003-10-14 21:20 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-21 16:12 ` Robert Pollard [this message]
2003-10-21 19:56 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-21 21:28 ` Robert Pollard
2003-10-22 18:23 ` Kai Grossjohann
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2003-10-21 23:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-22 12:38 ` Hugh Wolf
2003-11-09 17:58 ` Robert Pollard
[not found] <mailman.2081.1066753006.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-21 16:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-21 21:32 ` Robert Pollard
[not found] <mailman.2080.1066752801.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-21 16:36 ` Hugh Wolf
2003-10-21 21:39 ` Robert Pollard
2003-09-24 19:33 Robert Pollard
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