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Larry Evans wrote:

> But why must I prepend the missing paths with
> that (setenv "PATH"...) in my
> ~/.emacs.d/init.common.el?

Yeah, don't do that.

A computer system has a hierarchy to everything
and the PATH is set in a sphere below the
sphere that runs Emacs and other programs.

So set in in one of your shell's init
files instead.

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