New subject: How do you modify PATH on Windows XEmacs 21.4.3

Wednesday, 24 October 2001

...
 Unfortunately, setenv only affects subprocesses, not the XEmacs
process 
 itself. And since XEmacs is the process loading my DLL, Windows looks at 
 its PATH, not PATHs for subprocesses. 
What a hoax!

...
 We could modify setenv to take an optional boolean arg that would 
 indicate whether this change affects the Xemacs process, or just 
 subprocesses. Default would be false, and just affect the subprocesses 
 (the current behavior). True would cause a change to the XEmacs process 
 as well as causing XEmacs to reload that environment variable into the 
 lisp variable for the environment.

 Thoughts? 
Sounds alright to me.

...
 One of the things I've been considering for a while is writing
lisp 
 primitives that allow you to manipulate the windows registry. This would 
 then allow you to muck with AppPaths under windows which I think would 
 achieve what you want. Windows-specific though... 
... in Win9x you need to edit autoexec.bat and reboot (that's a bit like Unix).

But if you change the default environment in .emacs you need to restart
xemacs for changes to take effect. That's an installer type thing. Perhaps
the dll's should have been installed in the first place?

	/J. Haglund

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RE: How do you modify PATH on Windows XEmacs 21.4.3