From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Jim Crossley <jcrossley@redhat.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inherit the path environment from .bash_profile (Mac OS 10.5)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:27:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4610234C-B9C8-4E2F-9F15-1AAC825ECD62@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24of7ltwf.fsf@jimbook.crossleys.home>
Am 06.08.2010 um 16:04 schrieb Jim Crossley:
> Peter Dyballa writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> A different method is composing a file ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.
>> It
>> sets the environment for all processes at boot time. Read more here:
>
> Offtopic, sorry, but speaking of environment.plist, I was shocked to
> find out there's no way to do substitution in a plist file. Hence,
> you
> can't define variables in terms of other variables, which makes that
> file needlessly verbose and error prone.
>
Yes. One has to be aware of what one did. OTOH, it's probably
sufficient for a dozen *basic* settings, PATH, MANPATH, INFOPATH,
LANG, LC_CTYPE...
--
Greetings
Pete
Well begun is half done.
– Optimist.
Half done is well begun.
– Realist.
Half begun is well done.
– Australian.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 3:17 Inherit the path environment from .bash_profile (Mac OS 10.5) Z
2010-08-06 8:47 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-08-06 14:04 ` Jim Crossley
2010-08-06 15:27 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2010-08-08 17:54 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-08-06 12:09 ` Andrea Crotti
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2010-08-06 12:02 ` Elena
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2010-08-06 5:58 ` inherit " Tim X
2010-08-06 7:15 ` Xah Lee
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2010-08-06 3:15 Z
2010-08-06 14:00 ` Jim Crossley
2010-08-06 15:36 ` Peter Dyballa
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