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Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding
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Robert Pollard |
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Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding |
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:12:34 -0700 |
Hey Kai,
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com> writes:
I am curious as to why my exec path is not expanding the PATH
variable. Does it expand it when it uses it or should it be expanded
in the exec-path variable?
I guess that $PATH should be expanded already. I think that
exec-path is initialized from $PATH.
You are correct!
In the shell where you start Emacs, have a look at $PATH. Does it
contain them "$SYBASE" strings literally, dollar-sign and all?
Technically, I don't start Emacs from a shell since it is a Mac OS X
app but in a round about way it starts from my home, which does have
the expanded versions of the path names. If I go to the terminal and
printenv for PATH it has the path names expanded out.
Maybe PATH="$PATH" or setenv PATH "$PATH" might be useful things to
type in the shell before starting Emacs.
I believe it is correct. However, I don't know why Emacs doesn't see
it the same. Maybe it expands the variables before it uses and it is
some other problem??? I don't know what's is going on. For now, I'm
dragging the documents to Emacs instead of using Dired to find files.
Thanks,
Robert
Kai
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- Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding, Robert Pollard, 2003/10/21
- Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding, Hugh Wolf, 2003/10/21
- Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/10/21
- Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/10/21
- Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding, Hugh Wolf, 2003/10/22