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Re: emacs doesn't inherit PATH from environment


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: emacs doesn't inherit PATH from environment
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:54:41 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)

Larry Evans wrote:

> But why must I prepend the missing paths with
> that (setenv "PATH"...) in my
> ~/.emacs.d/init.common.el?

Yeah, don't do that.

A computer system has a hierarchy to everything
and the PATH is set in a sphere below the
sphere that runs Emacs and other programs.

So set in in one of your shell's init
files instead.

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