From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7793: inconsistent behavior of exec-path Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328308296 31475 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2012 22:31:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 22:31:36 +0000 (UTC) To: 7793-done@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 03 23:31:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RtRfJ-0006TM-Bn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:31:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59134 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtRfI-0002UN-Je for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtRfF-0002U2-2l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtRfE-0005tV-6K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:29 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtRfE-0005tH-3W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RtRfm-00061e-KB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:32:02 -0500 Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 7793 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 7793@debbugs.gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by 7793-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D7793.132830831523146 (code D ref 7793); Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7793-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Feb 2012 22:31:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52855 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RtRfe-00061H-RA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53076 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RtRfc-00061B-J4 for 7793-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtRf3-0002Nz-3s; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:17 -0500 X-Spook: CipherTAC-2000 sniper eternity server Serbian Aladdin X-Ran: lEsy.X,gZWl<"l(Eb]bPS;0j|}VMz*hv9#.l\@,WMso\[m5o;KG*@pUU|(jXJk-/PnpzD] X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:10:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:56453 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > FWIW, I don't think the inconsistency that is the subject of this bug > can be resolved in any reasonable way. The separation between > exec-path and PATH is deliberate in Emacs, so setting one from the > other will not DTRT at least for some use-cases. I am closing this report.