Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding

[Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com>]

Hey Hugh,

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Hugh Wolf wrote:

> On 2003-10-21, Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com> wrote:
>> Technically, I don't start Emacs from a shell since it is a Mac OS X
>> app but in a round about way it starts from my home, which does have
>> the expanded versions of the path names.
>
> If you launch emacs from the Finder or the Dock, it will be running in
> an environment in which no shell rc or login rc has ever run.  As a
> result, the value of PATH at will always be the default.
>
> If you want PATH or any other environment variable to have a
> non-default value in an osx application, you have two choices:
>
> 1. Define the variable in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.

The PATH variable is defined in the environment.plist file.  The 
following entry is in the file:
<key>PATH</key>
<string>/$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin:$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin:$PATH</string>

Obviously, it is not understanding the environment variables here.  Is 
there a way that you are aware of to make OS X read the variables from 
the environment to help define a variable or add to a variable as in 
the above entry?

Thanks for your input,

Robert

>
> 2. Launch the app from a Terminal window (via 'open'), not from the
> Finder or the Dock.
>
>
>
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