The problem I think is that ~ does not get expanded. You could try $HOME instead of ~
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Dr Victor Lazzarini
Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy,
Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 7086936
Fax: 00 353 1 7086952

> On 7 Oct 2015, at 09:47, Hlöðver <hlolli@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> This is an old issue and I found some people in the archives having this
> problem in the past. If I either run csound package for emacs or just open a
> shell in emacs and type csound I always hit the same error message: WARNING:
> Error opening plugin directory '~': No such file or directory
>
> Some say it's a bad practice to use emacs shell so I dont worry too much
> about this. But it will make my programming faster to stay in emacs rather
> than to open seperate window. So does any Emacs/Csound user know the
> workaround for this, how to tell emacs shell to find the corresponding
> variables. I get the same output from "echo $PATH" in Emacs as I do in a
> terminal app...

In every environment variable I do use $HOME instead of ~ but I now noticed that there is a difference between the two shells. Emacs shell will actually display a single tilde sign ~ with "echo $OPCODEDIR" and "echo OPCODEDIR64" while being empty in terminal app. Have no idea why emacs shell does this and no idea where to fix this. Changing OPCODEDIR and OPCODEDIR64 in .bash_profile had no effect on the error message WARNING: Error opening plugin directory '~': No such file or directory

2015-10-07 11:01 GMT+02:00 Victor Lazzarini <Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie>:

The problem I think is that ~ does not get expanded. You could try $HOME instead of ~
========================
Dr Victor Lazzarini
Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy,
Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 7086936
Fax: 00 353 1 7086952

> On 7 Oct 2015, at 09:47, Hlöðver <hlolli@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> This is an old issue and I found some people in the archives having this
> problem in the past. If I either run csound package for emacs or just open a
> shell in emacs and type csound I always hit the same error message: WARNING:
> Error opening plugin directory '~': No such file or directory
>
> Some say it's a bad practice to use emacs shell so I dont worry too much
> about this. But it will make my programming faster to stay in emacs rather
> than to open seperate window. So does any Emacs/Csound user know the
> workaround for this, how to tell emacs shell to find the corresponding
> variables. I get the same output from "echo $PATH" in Emacs as I do in a
> terminal app...

Ok, I believe I found the bug, it was inside Stephane Rollandin's csound-x in the file csound-x/csound-csd.el

(dolist (var '("SSDIR" "SFDIR" "INCDIR" "MFDIR" "SADIR"
           "OPCODEDIR" "OPCODEDIR64" "OPCODE6DIR" "OPCODE6DIR64"
           "RAWWAVE_PATH"))
  (cscsd-defenv var "~"))
 
(cscsd-defenv "CSOUNDRC" "~/.csoundrc")
(cscsd-defenv "CSOUND6RC" "~/.csound6rc")

Does someone know if Stephane is still maintaining csound-x? Looking trough these source files I see a lot of potential, I wish he would upload it on github.

2015-10-07 11:30 GMT+02:00 Hlöðver Sigurðsson <hlolli@gmail.com>:

In every environment variable I do use $HOME instead of ~ but I now noticed that there is a difference between the two shells. Emacs shell will actually display a single tilde sign ~ with "echo $OPCODEDIR" and "echo OPCODEDIR64" while being empty in terminal app. Have no idea why emacs shell does this and no idea where to fix this. Changing OPCODEDIR and OPCODEDIR64 in .bash_profile had no effect on the error message WARNING: Error opening plugin directory '~': No such file or directory

2015-10-07 11:01 GMT+02:00 Victor Lazzarini <Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie>:

The problem I think is that ~ does not get expanded. You could try $HOME instead of ~
========================
Dr Victor Lazzarini
Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy,
Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 7086936
Fax: 00 353 1 7086952

> On 7 Oct 2015, at 09:47, Hlöðver <hlolli@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> This is an old issue and I found some people in the archives having this
> problem in the past. If I either run csound package for emacs or just open a
> shell in emacs and type csound I always hit the same error message: WARNING:
> Error opening plugin directory '~': No such file or directory
>
> Some say it's a bad practice to use emacs shell so I dont worry too much
> about this. But it will make my programming faster to stay in emacs rather
> than to open seperate window. So does any Emacs/Csound user know the
> workaround for this, how to tell emacs shell to find the corresponding
> variables. I get the same output from "echo $PATH" in Emacs as I do in a
> terminal app...