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Subject: Re: exec-path not changed in autostart
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No, it doesn't. I added some paths to $PATH in .bashrc, and clearly they do not show up in exec-path by default.

On Friday, December 19, 2014 1:46:31 PM UTC-8, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:09:19 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Xin Jin <zariskij@gmail.com>
> > Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:09:20 +0000
> > 
> > I use the following code to add the paths from the shell environment to exec-path:
> > 
> > (setq exec-path
> >       (append
> >        (split-string-and-unquote (getenv "PATH") ":")
> >        exec-path))
> 
> Why do you need that?  exec-path already includes the directories from
> $PATH, so the above sounds redundant.