Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes: > Don't change PATH from inside Emacs, that way lies madness.
I've been doing it for years; it is extremely convenient to be able to switch compiler versions (for example) without leaving Emacs, when tracking down newly introduced compiler bugs/features. > Always modify your PATH outside Emacs, before you start Emacs. > Otherwise, the complex ways in which PATH interacts with exec-path exec-path must always be a copy of PATH, that's easy to enforce. > and with commands invoked from Emacs (including those invoked via the > shell) will break in subtle ways. Can you elaborate some use cases? I'd like to know what I'm missing. -- -- Stephe
