From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: path, cwd in NS port
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 21:03:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529210342.6014fe80@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200528204648.GB919@breton.holly.idiocy.org>
On Thu, 28 May 2020 21:46:48 +0100 Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> Does it definitely work in Emacs 26? I've had this
>
> ((string-equal system-type "darwin")
> (setq default-directory (concat (getenv "HOME") "/"))
Yes; I've confirmed it works in Emacs 26 but not 27.
> > One option that occurred to me was that it would be pretty easy to
> > invoke an "echo $PATH" shell command in my .emacs and parse it
> > into the exec-path, though I'd prefer only to do this if Emacs
> > was invoked a certain way (from the dock, spotlight, etc.) where
> > the PATH is known not to be set.
>
> A cheap and nasty method would be to look for environment variables
> normally set by the shell.
That's possible, though I think the cleanest solution would be for
Emacs to set something itself using Info.plist
> Why not use exec-path-from-shell?
exec-path-from-shell seems to be a third party package that I did not
previously know existed.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-30 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-28 15:00 path, cwd in NS port Perry E. Metzger
2020-05-28 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-28 16:31 ` Perry E. Metzger
2020-05-28 20:46 ` Alan Third
2020-05-28 22:30 ` 조성빈
2020-05-30 1:03 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2020-05-28 22:38 ` 조성빈
2020-05-28 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-30 0:48 ` 조성빈
2020-05-30 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-28 17:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-28 20:30 ` Perry E. Metzger
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