From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: exec-path and PATH Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:50:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86ipvfiyp0.fsf@gmail.com> <83vczfr0o0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300589439 7547 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2011 02:50:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:50:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christoph Scholtes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 03:50:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q18iw-0007CJ-8P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:50:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q18iv-0003BR-Nd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33848 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q18iq-0003B7-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q18ip-00043C-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:26077 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q18io-00042t-4C; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:50:26 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAL4HhU1Ld/X5/2dsb2JhbACldHiITbhfhWMElWk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,213,1299474000"; d="scan'208";a="97263449" Original-Received: from 75-119-245-249.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.245.249]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 19 Mar 2011 22:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 23B895914C; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:50:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83vczfr0o0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:10:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137441 Archived-At: > 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. Stefan