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do I need to replace \ with /?
do I need to replace ; with :? and if so, what about the : after the C?
this setenv, does it modify the PATH in my OS? if so, do I need to be logged in with admin account? and if I do modify it, does it effect my other programs in my windows XP?
I read the setenv and getenv but could not figure out the above.
why setenv PATH when there is setq exec-path?

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:

On Aug 4, 11:10 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:44:33 +1000

> > From: sam jesse <rev...@gmail.com>
> > Cc: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org

>
> > (when (string-equal system-type "windows-nt")
> > (progn
> > (setenv "PATH" "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin")
>

> Huh? why do you set PATH to a Unixy value when you are on a Windows
> machine?

my bad... am using cygwin.

> You should instead set PATH to the same value you set exec-path (only
> not as a Lisp list):

so the setenv PATH is equivalent to just setq exec-path? this is great
to know.

Xah

> > (setq exec-path
> > '(
> > "C:/Windows/system32/"
> > "C:/Windows/"
> > "C:/Windows/System32/Wbem/"
> > "C:/Windows/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/"
> > "C:/Program Files/Aspell/bin/"

> > emacs shell echo %PATH% puts out
>
> > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/
>

> Of course! because that's what you set it to, above.