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Re: Emacs on Mac does not inherit PATH


From: Jan Djärv
Subject: Re: Emacs on Mac does not inherit PATH
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:56:14 +0200

Hello.

24 jun 2014 kl. 10:34 skrev Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <address@hidden>:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Emacs HEAD on Mac (Mavericks).
> If it is executed from Dock, it does not inherit PATH:
> 
>       (getenv "PATH")
>       "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
> 
> If it is executed by "open /Applications/Emacs.app", it inherits PATH.

This is the way all OSX applications work, Emacs is not different.
Checkout:

% man launchctl

Search for setenv.  Also look at

% man launchd.conf

> 
> Emacs 24.3 inherits PATH even if it is executed from Dock.

No it does not:

(getenv "PATH")
"/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
emacs-version
"24.3.1"

> 
> Is this an intentional behavior change?

Nothing has changed in this area.

        Jan D.




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