Actually, the path has been constant.
Just a new ftp.exe in the path. I've tried in
the past to rename/erase the c:\...\system32\ftp.exe, and some *monitor* in
Windows detects, and restores it. I'll play around with it and
report.
Jeff
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Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 3:53
PM
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Re: ange-ftp not
working this AM
"Jeff Rancier" <address@hidden>
writes:
> I think I've found it after about 6 hours of
commenting/uncommenting my
> ..emacs. I did a install from the
internet update for my cygwin tools, and
> *apparently* Cygwin thought I
needed a different version of ftp. So,
> ange-ftp was breaking due
to the following line:
>
> (setq exec-path (cons
"h:/usr/pkg/cygwin/bin" exec-path))
It is frustrating when something
changes "behind your back".
> Perhaps, if I added the cygwin path
somehow to the end of list
> instead at the beginning?
I always
set exec-path explicitly, precisely for this reason:
;; "standard" Ada,
TeX etc.
(progn
(setq
exec-path
(list
(concat
gnu-drive "/usr/bin") ;; my tools, distributed
binaries
(concat
gnu-drive "/usr/local/bin") ;; locally compiled gnu
tools
(concat
gnat-root "/bin")
exec-directory ; emacs
utils
"c:/texmf/miktex/bin/" ; before
cygwin
(concat
gnu-drive
"/Gnu/cygwin/bin")
"c:/winnt/system32"
))
(setenv "PATH" (mapconcat 'identity exec-path
path-separator))
(setenv "MAKERULES"
"e:/ST5/Tools/Makerules")
)
> I guess I should
also be curious as to why this is failing,
I use cygwin ftp under
emacs, from Windows NT, and it works fine.
> and if there is a
better solution than using a binary search method
> of commenting out
half my .emacs, test, and do it again.
I don't think there is. Unless
you suspect a bad/new ftp.exe, you
would not
have thought that setting the path to include cygwin was
bad. So you'd have
stepped right past it anyway.
> Is gdb.exe what I should use to
debug elisp, in particular my
> .emacs?
No. I'm not sure how to
"step thru" a .el file. You can step thru a
function by executing 'M-x
debug-on-entry'.
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