From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: exec-path and PATH
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:46:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=rrafocFcbWaew-gfnG_KmV4romn=OdVyD0Qr1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838vw9a5qt.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> However, now I wonder why we have a facility like exec-path at
>> all. Wouldn't the process-environment's PATH be enough?
> Because working with a list is much easier than with a single string?
That would argue for making "exec-path" a sort of magical variable --
one whose value changes all by itself, whenever the PATH environment
variable changes. Would that be feasible?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-20 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-19 3:19 exec-path and PATH Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-19 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-19 16:36 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-19 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-19 19:50 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-19 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-20 19:45 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-20 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-20 20:46 ` Eric Hanchrow [this message]
2011-03-21 14:04 ` Eric Schulte
2011-03-20 22:44 ` Wojciech Meyer
2011-03-19 16:49 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-19 17:18 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-19 17:23 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-19 18:52 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-03-20 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-19 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-20 2:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-20 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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