From: Larry Evans <cppljevans@suddenlink.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs doesn't inherit PATH from environment
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:03:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p62ig5$j9h$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lmjma7g.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
On 02/14/2018 05:18 PM, Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Larry Evans <cppljevans@suddenlink.net> writes:
>
>> But why must I prepend the missing paths with that
>> (setenv "PATH"...) in my ~/.emacs.d/init.common.el?
>> After all, according to:
>>
>> The value of environment variable “PATH” is used by emacs when you are
>> running a shell in emacs, similar to when you are using a shell in
>> a terminal.
>>
>> from here:
>>
>> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ExecPath
>>
>> that should be done automatically.
>>
>> I think the answer is that I usually invoke emacs
>> from a pulldown menu in my window system, and I'm
>> guessing that doesn't use my bash environmnent.
>> However, when, in my ~/.profile, the PATH is exported,
>> then *that* PATH shows up in emacs; so, I'm guessing
>> the windowing system uses sh instead of bash and
>> therefore the PATH is taken from sh instead of bash.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what your saying here
>
> The point that Glenn Morris made is that the separator for path elements
> is ":" on Unix-like systems.
I understand, and after changing ; to : in ~/.emacs.d/init.common.el
it worked; however, the point I was making is the setting of PATH
in ~/.emacs.d/init.common.el shouldn't be needed. Indeed,
the setenv in ~/.emacs.d/init.common.el was deleted, but I also
moved the 'export PATH' from ~/.bashrc to ~/.profile. After that, the
Makefile worked. The conclusion I reached was that somehow
emacs, when invoked from my windows interface, apparently just
runs the ~/.profile code but not the ~./bashrc code and that's
why emacs was not seeing the PATH (because, previously it was
set in ~/.bashrc).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-15 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-12 15:51 emacs doesn't inherit PATH from environment Larry Evans
2018-02-14 1:27 ` Glenn Morris
2018-02-14 2:24 ` Larry Evans
2018-02-14 14:53 ` Larry Evans
2018-02-14 23:18 ` Robert Thorpe
2018-02-15 1:03 ` Larry Evans [this message]
2018-02-15 2:38 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.9140.1518662330.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-15 15:59 ` Barry Fishman
2018-02-15 20:18 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.9127.1518652911.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-16 16:58 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.9096.1518616283.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-16 16:54 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.9075.1518571658.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-14 1:38 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] <mailman.8985.1518453550.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-13 19:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-02-13 23:57 ` Larry Evans
[not found] ` <mailman.9069.1518566292.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-14 0:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-02-14 0:48 ` Larry Evans
2018-02-14 1:45 ` Robert Thorpe
2018-02-14 2:35 ` Larry Evans
[not found] ` <mailman.9071.1518569365.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-14 1:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-02-14 1:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-02-14 1:32 ` Robert Thorpe
2018-02-14 19:19 ` Bastian Beischer
[not found] ` <mailman.9115.1518635972.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-16 17:14 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] <mailman.9076.1518571984.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-14 1:43 ` Emanuel Berg
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