* How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
@ 2011-04-13 12:14 Young, Ed
2011-04-13 20:53 ` Edward O'Connor
2011-04-13 20:58 ` Perry Smith
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From: Young, Ed @ 2011-04-13 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this. If so please redirect me.
I am running emacs on MacOSX, installed from a DMG file.
It works great, but it is not aware of my path, so I can't execute commands like 'git' or 'svn' etc.
How can I configure it to be aware of my path. I'm using the global path variable file /etc/profile.
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* Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
2011-04-13 12:14 How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX Young, Ed
@ 2011-04-13 20:53 ` Edward O'Connor
2011-04-13 20:58 ` Perry Smith
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From: Edward O'Connor @ 2011-04-13 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Young, Ed; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this. If so please redirect me.
> I am running emacs on MacOSX, installed from a DMG file.
> It works great, but it is not aware of my path, so I can't execute commands
> like 'git' or 'svn' etc.
> How can I configure it to be aware of my path. I'm using the global path
> variable file /etc/profile.
/etc/profile only affects the Bourne shell or processes descended from
such a shell.
If you want global path changes to be visible to all programs, use
/etc/paths & /etc/paths.d/
HTH.
Ted
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* Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
2011-04-13 12:14 How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX Young, Ed
2011-04-13 20:53 ` Edward O'Connor
@ 2011-04-13 20:58 ` Perry Smith
2011-04-13 23:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-04-14 2:17 ` Young, Ed
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From: Perry Smith @ 2011-04-13 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Young, Ed; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Young, Ed wrote:
> Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this. If so please redirect me.
>
> I am running emacs on MacOSX, installed from a DMG file.
>
> It works great, but it is not aware of my path, so I can't execute commands like 'git' or 'svn' etc.
>
> How can I configure it to be aware of my path. I'm using the global path variable file /etc/profile.
The Finder on the Mac (that starts emacs) doesn't look at /etc/profile, etc. For a particular user, it does look at ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
Its a "property list" thing that is normal for Mac settings. You can find it documented more on Mac forums and those kinds of places.
e.g. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1067/_index.html
If you are talking about shells started within emacs, thats a different matter.
HTH,
pedz
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* Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
2011-04-13 20:58 ` Perry Smith
@ 2011-04-13 23:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-04-14 2:17 ` Young, Ed
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2011-04-13 23:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Perry Smith; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Young, Ed
Am 13.04.2011 um 22:58 schrieb Perry Smith:
> The Finder on the Mac (that starts emacs) doesn't look at /etc/
> profile, etc.
It's *not* the Finder (it's Launch Service).
Another way to setup PATH is in your init file:
(setenv "PATH" (concat "/some/directory" path-separator (getenv
"PATH")))
Your shell can be corrected via ~/.emacs_<name of the shell
interpreter>.
--
Greetings
Pete
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* Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
2011-04-13 20:58 ` Perry Smith
2011-04-13 23:00 ` Peter Dyballa
@ 2011-04-14 2:17 ` Young, Ed
2011-04-14 9:05 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Young, Ed @ 2011-04-14 2:17 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Perry Smith; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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Thanks for the reply.
I must not have the environment syntax right.
I was able to set the path by adding in individual path elements like this:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/comcast/software/groovy/current/bin:/opt/comcast/software/grails/current/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/comcast/software/gradle/current/bin
But what I wanted to do was to set up some environment variables and include them in the path so as to shorten it:
SW_HOME /opt/summitbid/software
GROOV_HOME $SW_HOME/groovy/currrent
Path …:$GROOVY_HOME:/bin
But GROOVY_HOME never resolves to the actual path.
From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com<mailto:pedzsan@gmail.com>>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:58:47 -0500
To: Edward Young <ed_young@cable.comcast.com<mailto:ed_young@cable.comcast.com>>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org<mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org<mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>>
Subject: Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Young, Ed wrote:
Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this. If so please redirect me.
I am running emacs on MacOSX, installed from a DMG file.
It works great, but it is not aware of my path, so I can't execute commands like 'git' or 'svn' etc.
How can I configure it to be aware of my path. I'm using the global path variable file /etc/profile.
The Finder on the Mac (that starts emacs) doesn't look at /etc/profile, etc. For a particular user, it does look at ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
Its a "property list" thing that is normal for Mac settings. You can find it documented more on Mac forums and those kinds of places.
e.g. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1067/_index.html
If you are talking about shells started within emacs, thats a different matter.
HTH,
pedz
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* Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
2011-04-14 2:17 ` Young, Ed
@ 2011-04-14 9:05 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-04-14 12:19 ` Young, Ed
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2011-04-14 9:05 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Young, Ed; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Am 14.04.2011 um 04:17 schrieb Young, Ed:
> I must not have the environment syntax right.
You have to "export" the variables in sh and bash. In csh or tcsh
setenv does the same.
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Greetings
Pete
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* Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
2011-04-14 9:05 ` Peter Dyballa
@ 2011-04-14 12:19 ` Young, Ed
2011-04-14 14:18 ` Peter Dyballa
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Young, Ed @ 2011-04-14 12:19 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Peter Dyballa; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
?
Sorry, but that doesn't make any sense to me. If I define a variable in
the environment.plist file, and then log out and back in (that's a pain)
the variables are available.
The problem is when I try to embed a variable in the value of another
variable:
SW_HOME /opt/comcast/software
GROOVY_HOME $SW_HOME/groovy/current
In the case above, SW_HOME doesn't resolve correctly in the GROOVY_HOME
variable.
It doesn't seem like exporting is the problem.
On 4/14/11 3:05 AM, "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:
>
>Am 14.04.2011 um 04:17 schrieb Young, Ed:
>
>> I must not have the environment syntax right.
>
>
>You have to "export" the variables in sh and bash. In csh or tcsh
>setenv does the same.
>
>--
>Greetings
>
> Pete
>
>Let's face it; we don't want a free market economy either.
> James Farley, president, Coca-Cola Export Corp., 1959
>
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* Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
2011-04-14 12:19 ` Young, Ed
@ 2011-04-14 14:18 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2011-04-14 14:18 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Young, Ed; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Am 14.04.2011 um 14:19 schrieb Young, Ed:
> Sorry, but that doesn't make any sense to me. If I define a variable
> in
> the environment.plist file,
I did not understand completely what you wrote and assumed that you
were still referring to the usual files a shell interpreter is reading
when it is started.
> and then log out and back in (that's a pain) the variables are
> available.
Mac OS X allows to set up some so-called "Startup Items"...
>
> The problem is when I try to embed a variable in the value of another
> variable:
>
> SW_HOME /opt/comcast/software
> GROOVY_HOME $SW_HOME/groovy/current
>
> In the case above, SW_HOME doesn't resolve correctly in the
> GROOVY_HOME
> variable.
That's indeed not possible inside ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. It's
just a simple text, or, better: XML file. Inside it no substitution
happens. With GNU Emacs or some other editor it's really not that
complicated to substitute variable names with the contents they stand
for.
OTOH, a shell should be able resolve a setting like "$SW_HOME/groovy/
current" when "$SW_HOME" is given. Proof:
ls -l $SW_HOME/groovy/current
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