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Re: NT Emacs and Cygwin


From: Håkon Alstadheim
Subject: Re: NT Emacs and Cygwin
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:38:14 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

In which case the SETENV should work, since sub-shells will be
affected by the SETENV call.

M-x grep, M-x find-* would (I guess) benefit from having exec-path
adjusted.

-- 
Håkon Alstadheim, hjemmepappa.


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