From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inherit the path environment from .bash_profile (Mac OS 10.5) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:27:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4610234C-B9C8-4E2F-9F15-1AAC825ECD62@Web.DE> References: <00986741-2EF9-49E3-8148-0584E62C3E66@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281112567 5029 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 16:36:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jim Crossley Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 18:36:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhPtr-0003Gp-Bm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:36:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhPtq-0001xP-Df for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42764 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhPoP-0006wA-En for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:30:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhOqy-0000lT-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:46896) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhOqx-0000aP-Tz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de ( [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD5C15D0CB8D; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:27:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [91.35.177.217] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #24) id 1OhOpx-0006Xr-00; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:27:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18Wc4bXXmRichBbk3P+YBJ3c8Uw6szzMSs+nWvN A3nbZoAyDFMRZ3Kd8xKO7pBjmR69vXbc2nCijLe+eZRTVGzr+c dmvKc4t8ZVDdx1Loq15w== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74481 Archived-At: Am 06.08.2010 um 16:04 schrieb Jim Crossley: > Peter Dyballa writes: > > [...] > >> A different method is composing a file ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. =20= >> 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, =20= > 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 =20 sufficient for a dozen *basic* settings, PATH, MANPATH, INFOPATH, =20 LANG, LC_CTYPE... -- Greetings Pete Well begun is half done. =96 Optimist. Half done is well begun. =96 Realist. Half begun is well done. =96 Australian.