Problems with new platform version

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 21 June 2012 16:27, Christopher Done <chrisdone at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Possible Emacs doesn't start with the right PATH variable. I always start it
> from the terminal, but from
> the GNOME menu shortcut, it's just, blank. To check this is indeed the
> cause, check out:
>
> M-: (getenv "PATH")
>
> If it's different to your echo $PATH in your shell then it's probably
> that. I think this is because Emacs is not started from the shell. So
> you need to add .cabal/bin and your GHC path to your session-wide (or
> system-wide) environment variable file:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables#Session-wide_environment_variables


An alternative way of doing this:

; by appending a new path to existing path
(setenv "PATH"
  (concat
   (getenv "HOME") "/bin" ":"
   (getenv "HOME") "/.cabal/bin" ":"
   (getenv "PATH")
  )
)


>
> Or you can make a bash script to run Emacs and change your Emacs
> launching shortcut to run that instead.
>
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