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inconsistent behavior of exec-path |
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Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:07:48 -0500 |
suppose you have two directories (A&B) which contain two different
executables with the same name (N).
e.g., find.exe(N) in both "c:/gnu/gnuwin32/bin"(A) and "c:/WINDOWS/system32"(B).
if A follows B in $PATH, then M-x shell-command will call A/N for N
even if I manually swap A & B in exec-path.
So far so good.
However, if I run rgrep in "emacs -q", it fails because by default B
is before A in PATH and exec-path;
while if I push A to the beginning of exec-path before the first
invocation of rgrep, rgrep will find and use the good N.
this inconsistency is bad and together with bugs
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6784
and
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7785
is causing me much grief in my first encounter with windows in 4 years.
thanks.
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Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>
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Re: bug#7793: inconsistent behavior of exec-path |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:17 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> FWIW, I don't think the inconsistency that is the subject of this bug
> can be resolved in any reasonable way. The separation between
> exec-path and PATH is deliberate in Emacs, so setting one from the
> other will not DTRT at least for some use-cases.
I am closing this report.
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