On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:13:58 +0100 Peter Dyballa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

PD> Am 04.11.2008 um 10:57 schrieb Ted Zlatanov:

>> OK, I'll run it that way and see how it goes.  Why not put ns-
>> grabenv in the default init for everyone?

PD> Because it's usually not necessary. It's easy to synchronise the
PD> environment variables in a shell environment with those in a Mac OS X
PD> process environment, which to create no shell is necessary and
PD> therefore one needs ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. Once this file is
PD> set up as the single point of failure you can easily re-use its
PD> contents and override settings coming some default places as in:

PD>     .tcshrc:setenv LANG `defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment" LANG`
PD>     .tcshrc:set path=(`defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH |
PD> tr ':' ' '`)
        
PD>     .bashrc:export LANG=$(defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment" LANG)
PD>     .bashrc:export PATH=$(defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment" PATH)

I don't see why tcsh and bash settings make ns-grabenv unnecessary,
sorry.  Most people run Emacs.app from the app bundle, not from the
command line, right?

Ted

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