There may be a way: See if putting
. /sw/bin/init.sh
in your .xinitrc near the top (i.e. before you run any programs) passes
/sw/bin to exec-path.
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Stephen Anderson wrote:
> 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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