Re: NT Emacs and Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:15:39 +0100
> 
> > You need to modify PATH outside of Emacs, and before Emacs is invoked,
> > to get what you want.
> 
> Not necessarily.
> 
> exec-path's value is 
> ("/usr/kerberos/bin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/bin" "/bin" "/usr/X11R6/bin" 
> "/home/dak/bin" "/usr/local/emacs-21/libexec/emacs/21.3.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu")

IIRC, exec-path is effective only for programs for which Emacs
actively looks for the program's executable.  Examples include
programs that are part of the Emacs distribution, like hexl.  I
assumed the OP was complaining about commands like M-!, for which
Emacs does not look for the executable, but lets the OS find them.