Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

John Russell wrote:

> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Robert Pollard wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello everyone,
>>>I am curious as to why my exec path is not expanding the PATH
>>>variable.  Does it expand it when it uses it or should it be
>>>expanded in the exec-path variable?
>>>I cannot get a directory listing and as per a previous post I get an
>>>error that it can't find the ls program.  Could this be the cause?
>>>exec-path's value is
>>>("/$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin" "$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin" "$PATH"
>>>"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin"
>>>"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec")
>>>
>>Hmmm.  What do (getenv "SYBASE"), (getenv "SYBASE_OCS"), (getenv "SYBASE_ASE"),
>>and (getenv "PATH") return?
> 
> They return the value of the environment variable of the argument.

That's what they should return, but I asked Robert to check since the
variable references and not the actual values were put into exec-path.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers