From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anselm Helbig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using javac with Emacs Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:26:08 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <871vm4crkf.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> References: <878wgcjyjk.fsf@student.ulg.ac.be> <873a6kcutx.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <871vm42yt4.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253282350 2418 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2009 13:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:59:10 +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 Sep 18 15:59:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ModzL-0003Uq-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:59:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ModzL-0002Bk-1O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:59:03 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 4AvPyOmCMnmWLkvOKfMVygWYF+8C9jqZJdfkL2ImHTrpyNnVtOe8fdSqpu Cancel-Lock: sha1:jgJT/di5xDb5cOeNrXFoubgOTT0= In-Reply-To: <871vm42yt4.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> Mail-Followup-To: Anselm Helbig Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173147 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68270 Archived-At: At Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:59:51 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Anselm Helbig writes: > > > 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-variableexec-path 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 exec-path ? > 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.) -- Anselm Helbig mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com