Re: emacs doesn't inherit PATH from environment

[Larry Evans]

On 02/13/2018 07:27 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Larry Evans wrote:
>
> > However, in emacs eshell with the PATH set in ~/emacs.d/init.common.el:
> >
> > Welcome to the Emacs shell
> >
> > ~/.emacs.d $ echo $PATH
> > /home/evansl/anaconda3/bin;/home/evansl/miniconda3/bin;/home/evansl/dwnlds/depot_tools/depot_tools:/home/evansl/dwnlds/gsrc.top/install/bin:/home/evansl/bin:/opt/OpenPrinting-Gutenprint/sbin:/opt/OpenPrinting-Gutenprint/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
>
> Incorrect use of ";" rather than ":" to separate elements at the start of PATH.
AH!  Correct.  After change to : all worked as expected:

--{--cut here--
-*- mode: compilation; default-directory: 
"~/prog_dev/python/pdfminer/pdfminer/" -*-
Compilation started at Tue Feb 13 20:22:30

make -k which
tail ~/.emacs.d/init.common.el
      (transient-mark-mode 1)
))

(setenv "PATH"
  (concat
   "/home/evansl/anaconda3/bin" ":"
   "/home/evansl/miniconda3/bin" ":"
   (getenv "PATH")
  )
)
which pdf2txt.py
/home/evansl/anaconda3/bin/pdf2txt.py

Compilation finished at Tue Feb 13 20:22:30

--}--cut here--
Thanks to everybody for the help and especially to those
who caught the typo ;)

-regards,
Larry