Re: Compile Mode and "host" Emacs

[Nathan Trapuzzano]

Your best bet is probably:

(concat (file-name-as-directory invocation-directory) invocation-name)

You can wrap that in (file-truename ...) if you want the true name.

Nathan

Sebastian Wiesner <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> how can a compilation process obtain the path to the Emacs executable
> which started it?
>
> I know that Emacs sets $EMACS and $INSIDE_EMACS in the environment of
> compile processes, but the values of these variables aren't exactly
> helpful and I didn't see any other environment variables in the
> compile code.  So apparently environment variables can't help me.
>
> Is there any way to find out the path to the "host" Emacs executable?
> Preferably with not too much trickery?
>
> Sincerely,
> Sebastian Wiesner