From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problems starting emacs with correct environmental settings Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:45:51 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <878wj6og9s.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246578055 27472 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2009 23:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 03 01:40:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MMVtY-0004TU-Gv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMVtX-0003F3-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.news-service.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!212.27.60.9.MISMATCH!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-a.proxad.net!nnrp11-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:M2EyZTE3ZDkzYzg1Mzg1Y2U3MjIzNjkwZWQwNzU2YmJkYjhkMDZmNA== Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Jul 2009 00:45:53 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1246574753 news-4.free.fr 19627 88.182.134.169:62229 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170530 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65743 Archived-At: Alain Muls writes: > Hi emacs users, > > On my ubuntu system I have in the top bar the icon (dragged from the > menu entry in Accessories) to launch emacs. By doing so, I have no > access to my PATH variable, eg. a compile (make -k) won't run. > > When I launch emacs from a shell, than there is no problem and make or > other scripts are available. What should I do to have the icon launch > emacs with my PATH set. You could launch a script instead of emacs. But you may also set the environment variables from emacs: (require 'cl) (defun join (los sep) (with-output-to-string (princ (first los)) (dolist (s (rest los)) (princ sep) (princ s)))) (setf (getenv "PATH") (join (list* "/your/path" "/and/some/more" (getenv "PATH")) ":")) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__