Ehud Adding the: (setenv "BASH_ENV" "/etc/profile") to my .emacs file did not solve the problem of the path, where the "perl" is picked from. It still stays /usr/bin.
Thanks Roman -----Original Message----- From: Ehud Karni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:57 PM To: Roman Adar Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to make cygwin/bash shell work in emacs On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:14:44 -0700, Roman Adar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm still having a minor problem. The Perl I'm running from the "cygwin" > command line is the ActiveState Perl. I've modified the /etc/profile file to > look 1st in the c:/Program Files/bin directory. However when I do "which > perl" in the shell within emacs, the shell that is invoked is the "cygwin" > Perl, from the /usr/bin directory. This is what I do not want. > > So my question is how do I force also in the shell that is spawned in the > emacs to invoke the correct Perl. >From the Bash man page: Non-login interactive shells: On startup (subject to the -norc and -rcfile options): if ~/.bashrc exists, source it. Non-interactive shells: On startup: if the environment variable ENV is non-null, expand it and source the file it names, as if the command if [ "$ENV" ]; then . $ENV; fi had been executed, but do not use PATH to search for the pathname. When not started in Posix mode, bash looks for BASH_ENV before ENV. Emacs starts Bash as "Non-login interactive shells". To make thing easier I suggest you set "BASH_ENV" to "/etc/profile" in ~/.emacs: (setenv "BASH_ENV" "/etc/profile") [ This is really Bash/Cygwin problem not Emacs, so I cross post ] Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Mivtach - Simon Insurance /"\ Tel: +972-3-7966-561 Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign (USA) Fax and voice mail: 1-815-5509341 X Against HTML Mail Better Safe Than Sorry / \ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simonwiesel.co.il -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
