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* Why does exec-path seem to be modified?
@ 2015-02-14 21:42 Marcin Borkowski
  2015-02-15 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2015-02-14 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list

Hello all,

C-h v exec-path RET
shows roughly this in my Emacs:

exec-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
("/home/marcin/texlive/2014/bin/i386-linux" "/home/marcin/bin" "/usr/local/sbin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/bin" "/sbin" "/bin" "/usr/games" "/usr/local/games" "/usr/local/libexec/emacs/25.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu")

Original value was 
("/home/marcin/texlive/2014/bin/i386-linux" "/home/marcin/bin" "/usr/local/sbin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/bin" "/sbin" "/bin" "/usr/games" "/usr/local/games" "/home/marcin/other-files/emacs/emacs/lib-src" "/usr/local/libexec/emacs/25.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu")

The /home/marcin/other-files/emacs/emacs is where the source code of my
Emacs lives.

Why is there a difference between its "value" and "original value"?
Needless to say, I do not mess with it in my init.el.

TIA,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



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* Re: Why does exec-path seem to be modified?
  2015-02-14 21:42 Why does exec-path seem to be modified? Marcin Borkowski
@ 2015-02-15 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2015-02-15 22:26   ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2015-02-15 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 22:42:50 +0100
> 
> C-h v exec-path RET
> shows roughly this in my Emacs:
> 
> exec-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is
> ("/home/marcin/texlive/2014/bin/i386-linux" "/home/marcin/bin" "/usr/local/sbin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/bin" "/sbin" "/bin" "/usr/games" "/usr/local/games" "/usr/local/libexec/emacs/25.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu")
> 
> Original value was 
> ("/home/marcin/texlive/2014/bin/i386-linux" "/home/marcin/bin" "/usr/local/sbin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/bin" "/sbin" "/bin" "/usr/games" "/usr/local/games" "/home/marcin/other-files/emacs/emacs/lib-src" "/usr/local/libexec/emacs/25.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu")
> 
> The /home/marcin/other-files/emacs/emacs is where the source code of my
> Emacs lives.
> 
> Why is there a difference between its "value" and "original value"?

Because Emacs modifies the original value during startup, see
callproc.c.



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* Re: Why does exec-path seem to be modified?
  2015-02-15 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2015-02-15 22:26   ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2015-02-15 22:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> Because Emacs modifies the original value during startup, see
> callproc.c.

Looks like a bug, then.  The value as modified by default during startup
should appear as the "Original" value.


        Stefan




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