js-beautify not found

[drewwells]

Even after installing js-beautify globally, I'm getting errors running this in EMACS. This may be because I use NPM. Can you add some notes about setting up the paths correctly in EMACS, so that this package can find js-beautify?

[dentrinh]

What is the issue exactly?

[tacit7]

I think Im having the issue that drewwells was having. I downloaded js-beautify using the -g option, but emacs is having problems calling js-beautify. I get 'js-beautify not found' when I call web-beautify-js.

[dentrinh]

@tacit7 @drewwells Are you both still experiencing the issue? Have you verified that js-beautify is part of your PATH for Emacs? Could you provide some more information if you are still having issues, e.g. operating system, emacs version, error traces, etc.

[tacit7]

@dentrinh I solved the issue, but I don't quite remember what I did to solve it. But I think I had to add the path to js-beautify to my emacs config.

Im an emacs newb, so I didnt know I had to do that.

[drewwells]

I added js-beautify to my path as well.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:12 AM, uriel notifications@github.com wrote:

@dentrinh I solved the issue, but I don't quite remember what I did to solve it. But I think I had to add the path to js-beautify to my emacs config.

Im an emacs newb, so I didnt know I had to do that.

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[gihankarunarathne]

I got the same problem and I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and node customize version v0.10.30 (which is downloaded and install in /opt/node/bin, then added it to PATH variable ).

I solved the problem using following steps;

1. cd ~/.emacs.d/vendor
2. git clone https://github.com/yasuyk/web-beautify.git
3. cd web-beautify.git
4. npm install js-beautify
5. mv node_modules/.bin node_modules/bin
6. Edit each file in node_modules/bin (such as css-beautify etc..)
   change "#!/usr/bin/env node" into "#!/opt/node/bin/node"

Note: if you added as "#!/opt/node/bin", it will give permission error.
7. Added "(setq exec-path (append exec-path '("~/.emacs.d/vendor/web-beautify/node_modules/bin")))" into your emacs config file (.emcs or init.el)
8. Setup web-beautify : https://github.com/yasuyk/web-beautify#manual

Cheers ... !!!

[lvguowei]

This happened to me on mac.

Solved it by doing the following:

• Finds out the js-beautify executable on your machine by which js-beautify.
• add this dir into the Exec Path in emacs in customize page.

[anthonyteo]

Hi all,

The same problem happened to me on my Mac. I am able to get the result of which js-beautify, which is /usr/local/bin/js-beautify, but I have no idea how to "add this dir into the Exec Path in emacs in customize page" as mentioned by @lvguowei. I know I have installed js-beautify on my system because I was able to run js-beautify -h as well, and I know Emacs understands M-x web-beautify-js too. The only problem is the said error when I run M-x web-beautify-js on Emacs...

Can someone please provide me detailed instructions as to how exactly I should add js-beautify to my path so that my Emacs understands it? Many thanks in advance.

[dentrinh]

@anthonyteo Assuming that the path to js-beautify is missing when you do "M-x getenv PATH", you can append the path to the exec path in your init file: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ExecPath. Alternatively you can grab this: https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell.

[anthonyteo]

@dentrinh Thank you so much. Now it works. :)