From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Yuri Khan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: interference between package and exec-path values ? Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:24:27 +0700 Message-ID: References: <3290BF05-6449-4E60-A196-32BF09211B95@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539969979 17524 195.159.176.226 (19 Oct 2018 17:26:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: brandelune@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 19:26:15 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gDYXP-0004TY-0n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:26:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDYZV-0004er-Dx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:28:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58073) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDYVt-00020P-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDYVs-0005aS-W7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:24:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ot1-x335.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::335]:46282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDYVs-0005ZS-PO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ot1-x335.google.com with SMTP id o21so33903722otb.13 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:24:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gMjTNmVK1eXm56WgHlElpbciosUaW3kh/3zkhvYyVIM=; b=Aa0fUvHcYKxWJv9LI9sUGJ8BaeDI5cjhib6ZxabIJzdXrA7QLK3RzYSbWMjwcBkO3m 1bFWO/dONRxm1ePD3akEnFhTgb+vsyaEt+5HfEG71JuEP4JZYhZwwcVGv439JJp6h7Rm p4ovcC3YiJw8pyTIx5hhwisDEeJUSGglVxBeYyw1RM0P+J58NGq3DwyjAQe6Nojb4juR uSg1ifWiR70mMQm7X0mp7W2vfgVIVjhKZjGDvj/WXv3/PFOz+EAHCFbbLIecKyTqL5bb hxmU7vOLb70xRSxZtEZILS8VPOacLSHFVKhjVaNErsNyy1glSYCpF8P5/Z7g4vTHbNkt ft7Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gMjTNmVK1eXm56WgHlElpbciosUaW3kh/3zkhvYyVIM=; b=K54mZ6yePz5xmBT2YNLo9bAAvJMXET4G5uRBmNhHWGcPO3tOE2dQrjLApmpMAPgQkP U0S6YT75Gt01Ilosj8MbVEIeggIrAaCDzcs+3BUtWfV2o4Th1Ovy5eszynJlq0I5NP4+ ReYFDcTfvEgT6jpdJUM7Y9XME0lsywbSv/WkY+l5pJJW4ilE+VFvZnv8JuDN/CPuxFKo XD/F7EUonWsCblyK1dfrBxxXGaOpcVEo0G+8YPGG7maZFkffiH510qCfdajb/c+rp6CJ GBQ06ps5U0qPVDxxnYl+BCVSoq8MGQVTG2j36zOpkmW39G44hb7hSRfnejMMnD8/d10Y hBYA== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfoh8a6UwwRwohFV2cC9OYLUD+bbmdpP/I3phi93fafR2oa+sVY/V VJHAAT8GgUzI3brkdmCHRNwE1oezbgmEMDHjjyo= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV62tcTsoe3hlCHBwmRowUL8k0Hn+M69YafHMR7MKGUGREpZB9Cb6AwxzA370Kgx6oSzF0/Kbg2q52gPOQwTbM0U= X-Received: by 2002:a9d:948:: with SMTP id 66mr23296150otp.178.1539969879707; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:24:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3290BF05-6449-4E60-A196-32BF09211B95@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::335 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118344 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:15 AM Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > I am finding that having this line in my .emacs.el: > > (setq exec-path (append "/usr/local/bin/" exec-path)) > > interferes with package to the point that I can't install anything. =E2=80=98append=E2=80=99 accepts sequences as arguments. You are passing a = string as the first sequence, so it gets shredded to its constituent characters and these become elements of the resulting list. You probably wanted: (setq exec-path (append '("/usr/local/bin/") exec-path)) or: (add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/local/bin/") or possibly nothing, because the default value of exec-path derives its value from your PATH environment variable and that should already include /usr/local/bin.