From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: exec path Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:40:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <52147A10.1030406@t-online.de> <146ACADC-9BC8-429E-A3EE-58D7705768F8@Web.DE> <5215CB94.6070600@t-online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377182501 1567 80.91.229.3 (22 Aug 2013 14:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:41:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 22 16:41:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VCW4w-0002lA-M3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:41:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60204 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCW4w-0005qu-Ao for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53473) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCW4c-0005pd-VA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCW4U-000199-PK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:41:18 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60797) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCW4U-00018x-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VCW4Q-0001vO-0C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:41:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 206-248-179-83.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.179.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-179-83.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:41:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-179-83.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2o6f86VvyBwYz7XhOxrmGddML/4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93050 Archived-At: > The problem is not that I don't know how and where to define PATH > but that my definition of PATH is not found/used by emacs23. Same difference: the place where you currently define PATH is apparently not consulted by the script/program that launches your Emacs. Which means you need to set your PATH elsewhere. Emacs just uses whichever value of $PATH it receives from its parent process. Stefan