Re: NT Emacs and Cygwin

[David Kastrup]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson@yahoo.com>
>> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:24:44 +0530
>> 
>>      I am using
>> 
>> (setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") ";C:\\cygwin\\bin"))
>> 
>> to add cygwin's path, but emacs cannot find the executables.
>
> setenv modifies the environment that Emacs passes to its subprocesses,
> but doesn't affect the environment Emacs itself uses.  Thus, the value
> of PATH seen by Emacs will not change after the above.
>
> You need to modify PATH outside of Emacs, and before Emacs is invoked,
> to get what you want.

Not necessarily.

exec-path's value is 
("/usr/kerberos/bin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/bin" "/bin" "/usr/X11R6/bin" 
"/home/dak/bin" "/usr/local/emacs-21/libexec/emacs/21.3.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu")


*List of directories to search programs to run in subprocesses.
Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).

You can customize this variable.

Defined in `C source code'.


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