From: James Felix Black <jfb@homonculus.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Peter Vasil <mailing_lists@petervasil.net>,
Piotr Kalinowski <pitkali@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:24:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a9p3b4tt.fsf@homonculus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJe0aURvrATF+hdH7S5a=4qJ89dv7x531LrYWFW4Tw-5TX2VYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello --
In recent versions of OS X, one can modify environment variables for the
currently running graphical session with the launchctl (1) command:
% launchctl setenv PATH /foo/bar/baz:$PATH
... will work as expected.
HTH,
jfb
Peter Vasil writes:
> Hi,
>
> With this package you can solve the problem without launchctl and set
> the PATH within emacs
> https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell
>
> Best,
> Peter
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Piotr Kalinowski <pitkali@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>>
>>> The way to this on newer OSX is to create /etc/launchd.conf and put
>>> something like:
>>>
>>> setenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
>>>
>>> in there. I have not tried this myself.
>>
>> I'm on Mac, and I can confirm that this is the way to go, if you want to
>> have correct PATH for applications that are not started from Terminal.
>> What you set in /etc/paths and similar will work for the shell
>> environment in Terminal, and applications started from there.
>>
>> It is worth noting, that modifying PATH in this way requires you to
>> relog into graphical session. Actually, unless you run this manually
>> through launchctl, a full reboot might be required. I can't remember, if
>> that's the case.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Piotr Kalinowski
>>
>> --
>> Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
>>
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-13 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-07 18:19 About PATH environment variable on OSX Darren Hoo
2013-04-12 5:05 ` Jan Djärv
2013-04-12 12:39 ` Piotr Kalinowski
2013-04-12 14:07 ` Peter Vasil
2013-04-13 1:24 ` James Felix Black [this message]
2013-04-13 12:33 ` Piotr Kalinowski
2013-04-12 15:01 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2013-04-13 4:59 ` Josh
2013-04-13 12:41 ` Piotr Kalinowski
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