Re: Emacs on Mac 10.7 (Lion): how to get PATH as in terminal?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.927.1319411717.15868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess the emacs developers do not see *shell* as a "login" shell.
> 
> LIke you, I'm surprised.

Why?  The login shell is the initial shell started up when you first 
login to the system.  In the case of *shell*, you login to the sytem, 
then start Emacs, then start a new shell -- the latter is clearly NOT 
the login shell.

There are a couple of good solutions to this:

1. Put settings that you want in both login and non-login shells into 
your .bashrc instead of .profile.

2. The OS X-specific way to set environment variables for your entire 
login session is to put them in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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