Re: Cocoa Emacs 23 and Tramp problem

[Lars Wessman <lars.wessman@gmail.com>]

On Mar 7, 2009, at 12:24 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 07.03.2009 um 00:59 schrieb Lars Wessman:
>
>> I'll try this out tomorrow, and then maybe I'll look to see if this  
>> info is in the emacs wiki and, if not, add it in an appropriate  
>> place.
>
>
> If you do so, you could also mention that with ~/.MacOSX/ 
> environment.plist you have one "single point of failure:" you don't  
> need to mess with PATH or path settings in different (login) shell  
> RC files. Whenever you need a particular environment variable  
> globally, you can put it there. Since the process environment does  
> not automatically change when ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is  
> changed, and it could happen that you log in to your or some other  
> Mac from remote, you can also use ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist as the  
> single source for quite up-to-date environment settings in shell by  
> using in ~/.bashrc or such:
>
> 	export PATH=$(defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment" PATH)
>
> or in ~/.(t)cshrc or such:
>
> 	set path=(`defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH | tr ':' ' '`)
>
> I.e.: instead of editing half a dozen files every time you care for  
> just a single one.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>  Pete
>
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I just checked this out. It seems that my ~/.macosx/environment.plist  
has been there with the PATH variable in it all the time. For some  
reason it is not being picked up. I tested this again by commenting  
out the code I got from Aquamacs, and the contents of the  
environment.plist file was not being loaded again. I seems that this  
is problem.

After some googling, I cross a little package ( http://edward.oconnor.cx/elisp/osx-plist.el 
  ) for parsing plists that also happens to have the code for loading  
~/.macosx/environment.plist as sample code. I just tested it and it  
works like a charm.

So there are two choices, the code I took from Aquamacs, or osx- 
plist.el. osx-plist.el is probably the preferred method, since .emacs  
loads twice as fast using osx-plist.el than it does when using the  
Aquamacs code. This is likely due to the fact that the process of  
lifting the data directly from the shell is a bit slow, as Dave  
Reitter says in the comments to the code.

Cheers

Lars