From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Installing emacs-w3m (via el-get) on OS X? Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:02:53 +0200 Message-ID: <7DF249AB-821F-4EAF-B9B5-FAC0DE8FDFC0@Web.DE> References: <8fd8afb5-7391-43fa-9ee5-8864011de6d4@o8g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <73594fe6-4b28-4c40-99e0-b02ed49604d8@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347991396 13150 80.91.229.3 (18 Sep 2012 18:03:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 18 20:03:20 2012 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 1TE28l-0005Qb-Kh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:03:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38291 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TE28g-0006Xn-I1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TE28Y-0006XD-Qk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TE28P-0001M3-B8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:57742) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TE28P-0001Lw-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:02:57 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([95.222.201.211]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb003) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LvBJK-1TesQO35KE-010VTf; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:02:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <73594fe6-4b28-4c40-99e0-b02ed49604d8@googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:KIXnPQog8BvtymtrYzxkEhtcLAQ1W1Md2C4672mM8xz nRNLwkQ3lddQdAvI6CiI9SVwIA8uz05jzEbi9AKMDCLkcEQBye aaBYeNiRHtleFVYAlDwoe5lsNXvr3AOf7DFvQNVtsKnssMYw0g jG3hjaLoP2qwXdhFWJLtLDHQLMgUeUqfZ8abOv+HTbPLbfR9k8 d3YW91FtI0zifn+5Qx8eA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.15.3 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:86823 Archived-At: Am 18.09.2012 um 16:05 schrieb Peter: > I had set both the PATH environment variable and the exec-path = variable in emacs, but somehow, emacs shell was using something else. = Anyone know where that path comes from?=20 Two sources. First it inherits it from the environment which launches = GNU Emacs =96 in Mac OS X this is not really something useful (because = you should play with the apps and not work hard on the command line). = Second it's the RC files that set up the shell environment. Depending on = the kind of shell used they have different names (~/.login, ~/.(t)cshrc, = ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, =85) and depending on the character of the shell = (log-in or not) different sorts of files are used for its = initialisation. Finally you have control with ~/.emacs_. -- Greetings Pete If it does exist, it's out of date.=20 =96 Arnold's Second Law of Documentation