Re: Using javac with Emacs

[Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>]

At Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:59:51 +0200,
Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
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> Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:
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> > What does M-: (executable-find "javac") give you?
> This command seems not to work on my (however standard) Emacs.

What do you mean, it doesn't work? And what's a standard emacs,
anyway? GNU Emacs? What version? 

> However, I can still do ESC ! to type a shell command, but it is
> tedious.
> > Compare the output
> > of M-x show-variable<RET>exec-path<RET> with echo $PATH in your
> > shell.
> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games

So what's the output of M-x show-variable <RET> exec-path <RET> ?

> Shouldn't I add some lines to this?

Not necessarily. What does 

    which javac

on the shell give you? Which is roughly equivalent to the
executable-find function I asked you to call before, btw.

> > Do you start emacs from your shell?
> Yes.

Hm, strange. 

> > If not, does starting it
> > from the shell make the problem go away?
> Whatever the method of starting Emacs, there is no modification about
> javac. (I tried both methods.)



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