From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs doesn't inherit PATH from environment Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:27:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <2479cfa5-fc07-9720-8401-e1092176149c@suddenlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518571670 11467 195.159.176.226 (14 Feb 2018 01:27:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 01:27:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Larry Evans Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 14 02:27:46 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ellrI-0002JZ-9J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:27:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elltK-0002Fw-0i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:29:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ellrD-00014h-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ellrC-0001bS-37 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ellr8-0001Zp-Bi; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:27:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ellr6-0006Ms-HY; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:27:28 -0500 X-Spook: Delays Emergency management explosive Keylogger X-Ran: (*'/L3K*-N-ZhoG^9TMd,v>=odAMw|9V}gT+boTdR.-[?($yVNA9QQdC}\4J28rIi|+noC X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <2479cfa5-fc07-9720-8401-e1092176149c@suddenlink.net> (Larry Evans's message of "Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:51:51 -0600") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115996 Archived-At: Larry Evans wrote: > However, in emacs eshell with the PATH set in ~/emacs.d/init.common.el: > > Welcome to the Emacs shell > > ~/.emacs.d $ echo $PATH > /home/evansl/anaconda3/bin;/home/evansl/miniconda3/bin;/home/evansl/dwnlds/depot_tools/depot_tools:/home/evansl/dwnlds/gsrc.top/install/bin:/home/evansl/bin:/opt/OpenPrinting-Gutenprint/sbin:/opt/OpenPrinting-Gutenprint/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin Incorrect use of ";" rather than ":" to separate elements at the start of PATH.