From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: NT Emacs and Cygwin
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:15:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5act1687o.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2030.1101672934.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson@yahoo.com>
>> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:24:44 +0530
>>
>> I am using
>>
>> (setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") ";C:\\cygwin\\bin"))
>>
>> to add cygwin's path, but emacs cannot find the executables.
>
> setenv modifies the environment that Emacs passes to its subprocesses,
> but doesn't affect the environment Emacs itself uses. Thus, the value
> of PATH seen by Emacs will not change after the above.
>
> 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")
*List of directories to search programs to run in subprocesses.
Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).
You can customize this variable.
Defined in `C source code'.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-28 20:15 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 [this message]
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
2004-11-29 18:27 ` Elvin Peterson
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