Re: carbon emacs on OS X 10.3 (Panther): how to fix environment?

[John Wiegley]

Rob Dickens <address@hidden> writes:

> I understand that launching emacs from the Terminal commandline will
> give me the correct **environment variables**. Is anyone working on
> a fix so that it can be launched from the dock?

I use the following in my .emacs (note: it needs my xml-parse.el
module, http://www.newartisans.com/johnw/Emacs/xml-parse.el):

(when (file-readable-p "~/.MacOSX/environment.plist")
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file-contents "~/.MacOSX/environment.plist")
    (let* ((dict (cdr (assoc "dict" (read-xml)))))
      (while dict
        (when (string= "key" (caar dict))
          (setenv (car (cdr (car dict)))
                  (car (cdr (cadr dict))))
          (message "Setting %s=%s" (car (cdr (car dict)))
                   (car (cdr (cadr dict)))))
        (setq dict (cddr dict)))))

  (setq exec-path nil)
  (dolist (path (nreverse (split-string (getenv "PATH") ":")))
    (add-to-list 'exec-path path)))