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: Changing the PATH from emacs? Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:16:38 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: References: <87odanqwxr.fsf@lvps87-230-32-149.dedicated.hosteurope.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202924554 12443 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2008 17:42:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:42:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 13 18:42:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JPLcz-0001eu-Gb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:42:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPLcV-00073s-Qa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:42:07 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!208.49.83.154.MISMATCH!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!TEKSAVVY.COM-Free-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6SSG4wG+Oy260rmJb8LFntg8ZYA= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: e4bfb47b325a6e9af371e06817 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156119 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51496 Archived-At: > I'm using Emacs.app, the Carbon emacs for OS X. Works great, but it > can't find ispell, which was installed in /opt/local/bin, a path that > is not by default in the system PATH. > There doesn't seem to be a way to do this through Emacs.app/Info.plist > so my question is whether it possible to change the PATH from my > .emacs profile? Your problem has nothing to do with Emacs and shouldn't be fixed in an Emacs-specific way. You should set your PATH variable properly for *all* applications. E.g. via the .macosx/environment.plist file (or whatever its name is). Stefan