On Nov 26, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> 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?
He is suggesting to maintain ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist with the env
settings you need. (See the Emacs.app manual, now listed in the Emacs
info TOC, for some additional background and one means to
automatically do this.)
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