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[Member sybok]

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Its header (in my installation) states that it should be used by login shells and BASH, the latter unless ‘~/.bash_profile’ exists.
I guess it should be.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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This is a “configurable choice”, as are the specific entries in any of the various shell configuration files. Many distributions do include initial settings for their configuration files. This is not a standard, it is the convention of the distribution. Some distributions pre-configure just about everything, but that doesn’t mean it is the default. The truth is that such activity simply discourages individuals from experimenting and custom configuring their systems. Our distribution is almost the opposite; only a few things are pre-configured, and these may also be changed.

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[Member iznit]

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for a different approach, I searched “add path to emacs”.

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/550/exec-path-and-path
“Emacs does set exec-path from the value of PATH on startup, but will not look at it again later. But if you run a command, it will inherit PATH, not exec-path, so subprocesses can find different commands than Emacs does.”

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ExecPath
The value of environment variable “PATH” is used by emacs when you are running a shell in emacs, similar to when you are using a shell in a terminal.
The exec-path is used by emacs itself to find programs it needs for its features, such as spell checking, file compression, compiling, grep, diff, etc

The linked emacswiki page gives a solution for setting ‘exec-path’ to automitically match shell PATH

[Member iznit]

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This is a “configurable choice”

Yes! If you are using a terminal emulator, investigate its configuration options. Among the available settings you will probably find one toggle labeled “act as a login shell”.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Maybe “The Wizard” will be able to tell us.

See “The Wizard of Oz”, a classic movie, for more information. 😁😀

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