From: hakon@alstadheim.priv.no (Håkon Alstadheim)
Subject: Re: NT Emacs and Cygwin
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:38:14 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0mzx1549w.fsf@alstadheim.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2088.1101704044.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:15:39 +0100
>>
>> > You need to modify PATH outside of Emacs, and before Emacs is invoked,
>> > to get what you want.
>>
>> Not necessarily.
>>
>> exec-path's value is
>> ("/usr/kerberos/bin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/bin" "/bin" "/usr/X11R6/bin" "/home/dak/bin" "/usr/local/emacs-21/libexec/emacs/21.3.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu")
>
> IIRC, exec-path is effective only for programs for which Emacs
> actively looks for the program's executable. Examples include
> programs that are part of the Emacs distribution, like hexl. I
> assumed the OP was complaining about commands like M-!, for which
> Emacs does not look for the executable, but lets the OS find them.
In which case the SETENV should work, since sub-shells will be
affected by the SETENV call.
M-x grep, M-x find-* would (I guess) benefit from having exec-path
adjusted.
--
Håkon Alstadheim, hjemmepappa.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-29 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-28 15:54 NT Emacs and Cygwin Elvin Peterson
2004-11-28 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2030.1101672934.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-28 20:15 ` David Kastrup
2004-11-29 4:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2088.1101704044.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-29 10:38 ` Håkon Alstadheim [this message]
2004-11-29 18:27 ` Elvin Peterson
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