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Re: Cannot use `vc-annotate' on OS X
From: |
Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: |
Re: Cannot use `vc-annotate' on OS X |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:47:39 +0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:05:05 +0800
>> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> `F1 v exec-path RET':
>> exec-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
>> Its value is
>> ("/usr/bin" "/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/sbin"
>> "/Users/xfq/emacs-repo/bzr/trunk/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec"
>> "/Users/xfq/emacs-repo/bzr/trunk/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin")
>>
>> `/usr/local/bin' isn't in it. I'll add this path into my `.emacs',
>> thank you.
>
> Not a good idea, if you ask me. Your exec-path and PATH outside of
> Emacs should be in agreement (with the exception of the libexec
> directory). Otherwise, Emacs will be able to find files that the
> shell cannot, or vice versa.
>
> So I would suggest to figure out why the shell outside Emacs can find
> what Emacs cannot, and fix whatever causes that, instead of simply
> adding directories to exec-path.
Sounds like the problem described in and apparently solved by
https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell