Can't launch `lein` REPL in Emacs

Question

In Emacs, when using clojure-mode, I ought to be able to launch a REPL with C-c C-z. Whenever I try, though, I get the error:

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Answer 1

I had the same problem and started to investigate what was wrong. I soon discovered my exec-path looked like this (simplified example):

("/usr/local/bin /bin /sbin").

It was a list with just one long string instead of a list of separate paths. My env PATH variable looked exactly the same. Obviously the problem was coming from my shell.

I use fish-shell. It's PATH variable separator is just a space. The exec-path-from-shell package I use can't parse it. I fixed it by appending this to my .emacs.d/init.el:

(setq exec-path (split-string (car exec-path)))

Update: In the end it was an outdated exec-path-from-shell package. Use version 1.8. It works well with fish (and tcsh).