PATH and exec-path set, but emacs does not find executable

Question

My .emacs contains

(setenv \"PATH\" (concat \".:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin\" (getenv \"PATH\")))
(setq exec-path (append exec-path \'(\".:/usr/texbin:/opt/lo         


        

Answer 1

I hit a similar problem, but with a correct PATH, including trailing ´:´. It turned out the internal emacs shell program was missing, resulting in a ´Searching for program: No such file or directory´ message. Fixed with

(setq shell-file-name "bash").