From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELisp finding files in Path
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:22:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aan2dv5q.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yaytylatbzv.fsf@alma.europe.root.pri
pocmatos@gmail.com (Paulo J. Matos) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to execute some commands in my .emacs only if there are
> some files in the current PATH. The specific example is, I only want to
> load a perforce library (p4.el) if I can find the executable p4 in the
> path.
>
> How can I do this? I couldn't find any way to either run a shell command
> (through which I could run `which p4`), or read an environment variable
> PATH, and then find all the files in it and see if p4 is there.
>
> Any tips would be appreciated.
(when (executable-find ...) (load ...)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-28 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 10:10 ELisp finding files in Path Paulo J. Matos
2010-09-28 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-28 10:36 ` Paulo J. Matos
2010-09-28 10:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
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