Re: emacs, PATH, trailing /
FWIW, (getenv "PATH") doesn't yield trailing slashes for me with hamm
and emacs20. So I don't think it's a simple hamm bug.
Sorry I'm not more helpful.
miket
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:54:49PM -0500, David S. Zelinsky wrote:
>
> Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variable as seen
> from inside emacs (with (getenv "PATH")) has a trailing / on each entry:
>
> /usr/local/bin/:/bin/:/sbin/:/usr/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/X11R6/bin/
>
> This doesn't really hurt, but has the annoying side-effect that if I type
> `which foo' in an emacs shell buffer, I get a path name with a // in it:
>
> /usr/local/bin//foo
>
> Again, this doesn't really hurt anything (except for my sensibilities :< ),
> although occasionally I want to take the resulting path, and paste it in a
> find-file command to open the file -- but then emacs replaces `.*//' by `/',
> and so looks for /foo instead of /usr/local/bin/foo.
>
> I would like to know what is causing this behavior. I grep'ed on PATH in all
> the .el files in /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp, but didn't find anything that
> sets PATH. I even made an attempt to find something relevant in the emacs
> source code, to no avail.
>
> I didn't see this behavior until I switched to hamm, even though it's the same
> (upstream) version of emacs.
>
> I also tried installing emacs20, and got the same results.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Or have any idea what causes it? Or to whom to
> report a bug?
>
> --
> David Zelinsky
> dsz@alumni.caltech.edu
>
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