From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: cschol2112@googlemail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: exec-path and PATH
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:34:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Q1CE5-0007QI-El@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvipve4ieu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:50:25 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:50:25 -0400
>
> > Maybe we should consider the possibility to automatically set PATH
> > from exec-path each time Emacs invokes a subprocess, because this
> > issue comes up time and again in gnu.emacs.help.
>
> That sounds like a good idea, although there are some directories in
> exec-path which I think should not be transferred to PATH
> (e.g. /usr/lib/emacs/23.2/i486-linux-gnu). Not sure how best to do that.
What harm could be done if those directories are added to PATH?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-20 6:34 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
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 [this message]
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