From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:34:34 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F95C28A.8060601@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066780133 29444 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 23:48:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:48:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 01:48:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AC6F9-0003uz-00 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:48:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AC6C2-0005rh-2w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:45:38 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1066779269 30373988 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117516 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13447 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13447 Robert Pollard wrote: > On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Hugh Wolf wrote: >> 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: > PATH > /$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin:$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin:$PATH Since $SYBASE starts with /, you probably don't want that initial slash. > 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? -- Kevin Rodgers