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Re: Changing the PATH from emacs?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Changing the PATH from emacs?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:16:38 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I'm using Emacs.app, the Carbon emacs for OS X. Works great, but it
> can't find ispell, which was installed in /opt/local/bin, a path that
> is not by default in the system PATH.

> There doesn't seem to be a way to do this through Emacs.app/Info.plist
> so my question is whether it possible to change the PATH from my
> .emacs profile?

Your problem has nothing to do with Emacs and shouldn't be fixed in an
Emacs-specific way.  You should set your PATH variable properly for
*all* applications.  E.g. via the .macosx/environment.plist file (or
whatever its name is).


        Stefan


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