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Re: Changing the Environment (such as PATH)
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Rob Emanuele |
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Re: Changing the Environment (such as PATH) |
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Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:14:48 -0800 |
Thank you all. Those were very helpful suggestions.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
<pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> 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__
>