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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