Re: interference between package and exec-path values ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Yuri,

Thank you for the explanation.
You're right, but still, I had that faulty line for a while and that did not 
keep package from installing files... But that's ok, I guess now that I know 
how to make that work as before.

Jean-Christophe 

> On Oct 20, 2018, at 2:24, Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:15 AM Jean-Christophe Helary
> <brandelune@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am finding that having this line in my .emacs.el:
>> 
>> (setq exec-path (append "/usr/local/bin/" exec-path))
>> 
>> interferes with package to the point that I can't install anything.
> 
> ‘append’ accepts sequences as arguments. You are passing a string as
> the first sequence, so it gets shredded to its constituent characters
> and these become elements of the resulting list.
> 
> You probably wanted:
> 
>    (setq exec-path (append '("/usr/local/bin/") exec-path))
> 
> or:
> 
>    (add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/local/bin/")
> 
> or possibly nothing, because the default value of exec-path derives
> its value from your PATH environment variable and that should already
> include /usr/local/bin.

Jean-Christophe Helary
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