Re: locale in carbon emacs (was: OS X Installed numbers (was: mac-toolbox))

[Sherm Pendley]

On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 07:17 PM, Heather Madrone wrote:

I haven't yet been able to figure out how to get the carbon build of
emacs (a gui emacs) to import the locale so that the perl debugger
will run under emacs.  Any suggestions for the best way to handle
that?

GUI programs, since they're not launched from a shell prompt, don't inherit the environment you've set up in .cshrc, .profile, or other startup script.

Instead, their environment is defined in an XML file called ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist

****
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist SYSTEM "file://localhost/System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd">
<plist version="0.9">
<dict>
<key>LC_ALL</key>
<string>C</string>
</dict>
</plist>
****

(It occurs to me that, because Terminal.app is a GUI program, it might read this too, and if it does, it may pass the environment found here down to your shell environment...)

Also, which make do you use to get modules installed from CPAN?

I use the one that came with the system, which is GNU make.

sherm--

If you listen to a UNIX shell, can you hear the C?