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Re: Changing the Environment (such as PATH)


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Changing the Environment (such as PATH)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:08:46 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin)

Rob Emanuele <rje@crystalfontz.com> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm using Emacs for osx (the carbon version) and I need a way to alter
> the path in which emacs searches for programs.  I need to alter this
> path after emacs has started.  For example, I need to run a particular
> version of arm-eabi-gdb or scons.  These executables are not in the
> usual places as they are custom per project.  I would like to be able
> to alter my path after emacs has started so that I can use 'M-x gdb'
> and just type arm-eabi-gdb to invoke it.  Is this possible?

exec-path is the variable used by emacs (initialized from (getenv "PATH")).


Otherwise, you can modify the environment variable PATH for the
subprocesses from emacs with:

(require 'cl)
(setf (getenv "PATH") "....")

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__


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