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Re: no executable emacs binary in exec-directory
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: no executable emacs binary in exec-directory |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:41:13 +0100 |
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Sven Joachim <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2008-11-29 14:00 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>> I thought that the currently running emacs binary should be in
>> exec-directory. That does not seem to be the case always.
>
> Actually, on GNU/Linux this should never be the case.
>
>> How do you find it?
>
> It is in invocation-directory, and its name is invocation-name.
Thanks. Is this then the way to find the executable?
(defun ourcomments-find-emacs-executable ()
(let ((exec-path (list invocation-directory)))
(executable-find invocation-name)))