Re: Latest 21.4.19 windows native setup kit uploaded
On 1/26/06, Per Mildner SICS Usenet <PerMildnerSICSUsenet(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Further investigation showed that 21.4.13 added a registry item called
> Path to the registry which added the directory to the path for XEmacs
> shells only (not the global system path). Version 21.4.18 does not add
> this registry item.
There should not even be necessary to have any paths in the registry,
xemacs.exe should figure out where it is located and use that to find the
location of any related files and folders. It could then set its environment
variable PATH so that any sub-shells/sub-processes can find the xemacs tools
from their inherited value of PATH.
Robert,
Just add this bit of elisp to your .emacs or (.xemacs/init.el) file:
(setenv "PATH"
(concat (getenv "PATH")
(car (last exec-path))))
This should make sure that the directory containing etags gets added
to your shell's path.
Basically, I agree with Per and I'd rather not add an XEmacs directory
to the system path if I can avoid it, so I will be removing that
feature from the setup kit.
- Vin
PS. As you can see above, the XEmacs startup code does add the
necesary directory to exec-path, but the PATH environment variable
does not get set to the value of exec-path, so sub-processes do not
inherit that value.
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