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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing the PATH from emacs?
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:59:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6fj8jcm.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bq6nqt1t.fsf@lvps87-230-32-149.dedicated.hosteurope.de

On 2008-02-11 18:52 +0100, Stefan Arentz wrote:

> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> On 2008-02-11 18:25 +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>>> Am 11.02.2008 um 17:28 schrieb Stefan Arentz:
>>>
>>>> There doesn't seem to be a way to do this through Emacs.app/Info.plist
>>>> so my question is whether it possible to change the PATH from my
>>>> .emacs profile?
>>>
>>> 	(setenv "PATH" (concat "/opt/local/bin" ":" (getenv "PATH")))
>>
>> Are you sure that this will work?  AFAIK `setenv' only modifies the
>> environment of subprocesses; where Emacs searches for programs is
>> determined by the lisp variable `exec-path'.
>
> Indeed. It did not work, I tested it the wrong way and was confused.
>
> Your exec-path hint did the trick though!

It might be best to set up both.  When Emacs executes a program directly
(such as in call-process or start-process), you need to modify
exec-path, but when it uses a shell (as in shell-command), it is the
PATH environment variable that is relevant.

Cheers,
       Sven


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-11 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-11 16:28 Changing the PATH from emacs? Stefan Arentz
2008-02-11 17:25 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.7293.1202750758.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-11 17:38   ` Stefan Arentz
2008-02-11 17:42   ` Sven Joachim
2008-02-11 17:52     ` Stefan Arentz
2008-02-11 17:59       ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2008-02-11 17:45 ` Sven Joachim
2008-02-13 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier

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