From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xin Jin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: exec-path not changed in autostart Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:09:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <30a3109d-f2c6-4001-a761-8322133b4892@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419023426 10599 80.91.229.3 (19 Dec 2014 21:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:10:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 19 22:10:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y24oU-0006tW-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:10:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y24oT-0001kk-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:10:17 -0500 X-Received: by 10.236.60.131 with SMTP id u3mr4536987yhc.35.1419023360668; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:09:20 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.97.99 with SMTP id dz3mr76282igb.1.1419023360438; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:09:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i13no780697qae.0!news-out.google.com!d20ni20372igz.0!nntp.google.com!h15no26359130igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.12.130.163; posting-account=uVeeLQoAAACWRZi0JxvvzbgzpGmi5CsY Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.12.130.163 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:09:20 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209405 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101684 Archived-At: Hi, 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)) However, it does not work when "emacs24 --daemon" runs as a system autostart script. The interesting thing is that if I run "emacs24 --daemon" manually, the above code does work and the paths are successfully added. I am really confused. Can anyone see why this happens? I am running openbox on debian wheezy.