Hi Tom, Why not just embed these settings in a .bashrc file (or equivalent)?
############################################################ ### Settings that are defaults--can be updated below ############################################################ # Set up the TeX environmentals TEXINPUTS=.:${HOME}/tex/latex: export TEXINPUTS BIBINPUTS=.:${HOME}/litbase/bibtex: export BIBINPUTS BSTINPUTS=.:${HOME}/tex/bibtex: export BSTINPUTS Best, Rob > On Oct 23, 2023, at 6:26 AM, Tom Sgouros <tsgou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you Arash and Ikumi. That gives me something to go on. > > -Tom > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 4:42 AM Arash Esbati <ar...@gnu.org > <mailto:ar...@gnu.org>> wrote: >> Tom Sgouros <tsgou...@gmail.com <mailto:tsgou...@gmail.com>> writes: >> >> > I'm using a Mac (MacOs 13.2), and if anyone is familiar with the best >> > way to set environment variables for an Emacs started from the Finder >> > where there is no environment to inherit I'd love to hear about that, >> > too. /etc/rc.common does not appear to work for this. >> >> I've read a couple of times that the lisp library >> exec-path-from-shell.el is made for this[1]. I've never used it, >> though. I always start Emacs from the CLI. >> >> Best, Arash >> >> Footnotes: >> [1] https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell
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