Re: MAC OSX Emacs does not find PATH

[Daniel (Youngwhan)]

On Apr 6, 1:17 am, Stefan Kamphausen <ska...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Daniel (Youngwhan)" <breadn...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hello,
>
> > I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.95.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-
> > appkit-1038.29) of 2010-04-03 on black.local in MAC OSX (intel)
>
> > And, I found that it does not recognize added PATH in bash/
> > environment.plist at all.
>
> [...]
>
> > When I launch it through terminal, it works as expected.
>
> I am by no means an OSX expert, just unhappily stuck with that machine
> for two years...
>
> AFAIK the PATH together with the rest of your environment depends on how
> you start things..
>
> * From a terminal using some shell-script which opens Emacs.app:
>   This will inherit the PATH from you shell environment, just as in
>   Linux, so ~/.bashrc /etc/profile etc all should work.
>
> * From the Dock using some Icon:
>   This becomes a child process of the window server and has no knowledge
>   of your shell environment.  It should read the environment plist you
>   mentioned already, though.  Unfortunately there is no (easy) way to
>   keep PATH in ~/.bashrc and in env-plist in sync, you'll have to take
>   care of that yourself
>
> * From spotlight, i.e. Apple-Space, search for Emacs, start the App:
>   This is a direct child of the init-process, called launchd on OSX.
>   Well, this one reads neither /etc/profile nor env-plist, it is
>   controlled by some other conf-file in /etc, which I forgot.  Since
>   fiddling with that could lead to an unbootable system (as far as I can
>   tell, that is) I stopped at that point, when I had problems with PATH,
>   and just chose not to start Emacs (or Netbeans or whatever) using
>   spotlight.
>
> Ridiculous if you ask me, but then, I'm already through one year and for
> me there's only one more left ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
> --
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Great info, Stefan. Thank you,

Actually, it has been two day's experience for mac for me. Just bought
it and started to use mac for my life for the first time. :) However,
I am familiar with linux, so it is very convenient to use it, and I
like it.

Thank you!

Daniel.