Re: Using javac with Emacs

[Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be>]

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Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:

> At Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:59:51 +0200,
> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
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>> Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:
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>> > What does M-: (executable-find "javac") give you?
>> This command seems not to work on my (however standard) Emacs.
>
> What do you mean, it doesn't work? And what's a standard emacs,
> anyway? GNU Emacs? What version? 
It show me
"Trailing garbage following expression". It also does this when typing
executable-find javac
. Why? I am using GNU Emacs 22.2.1. Sorry for my imprecisions.
>
>> However, I can still do ESC ! to type a shell command, but it is
>> tedious.
>> > Compare the output
>> > of M-x show-variable<RET>exec-path<RET> with echo $PATH in your
>> > shell.
>> $ echo $PATH
>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
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> So what's the output of M-x show-variable <RET> exec-path <RET> ?
I would like to be able to give it to you, but M-x show-variable
returns "[No match]".
>
>> Shouldn't I add some lines to this?
>
> Not necessarily. What does 
>
>     which javac
>
> on the shell give you? Which is roughly equivalent to the
> executable-find function I asked you to call before, btw.
It gives /usr/bin/javac .
>
>> > Do you start emacs from your shell?
>> Yes.
>
> Hm, strange.
I know.
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Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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