Re: exec-path not changed in autostart

[Xin Jin]

On Friday, December 19, 2014 2:13:59 PM UTC-8, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Xin Jin <zariskij@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Friday, December 19, 2014 1:58:45 PM UTC-8, Xin Jin wrote:
> >> On Friday, December 19, 2014 1:54:34 PM UTC-8, Xin Jin wrote:
> >> > No, it doesn't. I added some paths to $PATH in .bashrc, and clearly they 
> >> > do not show up in exec-path by default.
> >> > 
> >> > On Friday, December 19, 2014 1:46:31 PM UTC-8, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> > > > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:09:19 -0800 (PST)
> >> > > > From: Xin Jin <zariskij@gmail.com>
> >> > > > Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:09:20 +0000
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > I use the following code to add the paths from the shell environment 
> >> > > > to exec-path:
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > (setq exec-path
> >> > > >       (append
> >> > > >        (split-string-and-unquote (getenv "PATH") ":")
> >> > > >        exec-path))
> >> > > 
> >> > > Why do you need that?  exec-path already includes the directories from
> >> > > $PATH, so the above sounds redundant.
> >> 
> >> Hmm, so is that the .bashrc is processed too slowly so that $PATH hasn't 
> >> updated?
> >> 
> >> But even if I add (sleep 10s && emacs24 --daemon), it still doesn't work. 
> >> Maybe I should try longer.
> >
> > Even sleep 20s does not work.
> 
> It is not about of timing. The init scripts execute when the OS starts,
> while your .bashrc executes when you log in. The OS will not allow you
> to log in until all init scrips are finished executing.

Thanks. Actually I find out that .bashrc executes when a bash process starts, 
and .bash_profile is the one that starts when I log in.

So the problem is solved after I move the paths from .bashrc to .bash_profile,