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Re: [h-e-w] GnuTLS in win32
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Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] GnuTLS in win32 |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:40:31 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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.
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-- Stephe