Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding

[Robert Pollard]

Hey Kai,

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Kai Grossjohann wrote:

> Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com> writes:
>
> > I am curious as to why my exec path is not expanding the PATH
> > variable. Does it expand it when it uses it or should it be expanded
> > in the exec-path variable?
>
> I guess that $PATH should be expanded already.  I think that
> exec-path is initialized from $PATH.

You are correct!

> In the shell where you start Emacs, have a look at $PATH.  Does it
> contain them "$SYBASE" strings literally, dollar-sign and all?

Technically, I don't start Emacs from a shell since it is a Mac OS X 
app but in a round about way it starts from my home, which does have 
the expanded versions of the path names.  If I go to the terminal and 
printenv for PATH it has the path names expanded out.

> Maybe PATH="$PATH" or setenv PATH "$PATH" might be useful things to
> type in the shell before starting Emacs.

I believe it is correct.  However, I don't know why Emacs doesn't see 
it the same.  Maybe it expands the variables before it uses and it is 
some other problem???  I don't know what's is going on.  For now, I'm 
dragging the documents to Emacs instead of using Dired to find files.

Thanks,

Robert

> Kai
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