[Fink-users] exec-path for xemacs

[Stephen Anderson]

Problem: xemacs can't find packages installed by fink, such as 
/sw/bin/ispell.  Xemacs uses the variable exec-path to find programs, 
and this is set to something quite conservative at startup, not 
including /sw/bin, /usr/local/bin, or the directory where GW's TeX 
programs live.  I can always hack this by putting something like the 
following in my .xemacs/init.el file:

(setq exec-path (append '("/sw/bin" "/usr/local/bin") exec-path))

but that's not as portable as it should be.  Is there any way to get 
xemacs to use the PATH variable from tcsh as its value for exec-path?

I should mention that I'm starting xemacs from the application menu in 
Apple's X11, so there's probably no shell from which it could inherit 
this value.  But there must be some non-kludgey way to do it.

-- Steve Anderson



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