From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: path, cwd in NS port
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 21:46:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200528204648.GB919@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200528123137.00369308@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:31:37PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2020 19:10:43 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Is this the same problem as discussed in bug#40924? (I don't use
> > macOS, so apologies if I;m confused about this issue.)
>
> It's certainly a version of the same issue; something happened such
> that the default CWD is no longer set to ~/ recently. That should be
> fixed independently if anyone knows what changed. (I've noticed this
> issue myself and it is quite irritating.)
Does it definitely work in Emacs 26? I've had this
((string-equal system-type "darwin")
(setq default-directory (concat (getenv "HOME") "/"))
in my init.el since 2015.
> 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.
Why not use exec-path-from-shell?
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-28 20:46 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 [this message]
2020-05-28 22:30 ` 조성빈
2020-05-30 1:03 ` Perry E. Metzger
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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