From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: auctex-devel@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [script vs ICon: latex binaries not found]
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 22:06:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r16cobp1.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sfqt1aj1.fsf@gmail.com
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> chad <yandros@gmail.com> writes:
> I think the aspect which confuses most people under macOS is that the
> 'dock' does not run as a child process of the user's login shell. This
> means it does not see any of the environment variables (such as PATH)
> which the user may have added to in their login .profile.
Very much so.
> Common complaint is that everything seems to work when they run Emacs
> from within a terminal, but not when they start it via the 'Icon'
> (either from the 'Applications' view in finder or the dock). It works
> from within the terminal because the terminal has run a shell which
> has sourced their login profiles (for simplicity, I'm ignoring the
> subtle differences between .profile/.bash_profile and .bashrc or
> .zprofile and .zxhrc, especially as lots of people now put many
> environment settings in .bashrc rather than .profile these days. Same
> with the differences between configuring the terminal app to run a
> login shell or just a 'normal' shell i.e. there is some devil in the
> details!).
Oops so do I (I even use the tcsh shell (via fink)
> The xattr command has little to do with the security restrictions on the
> mac. In fact, even GNU Linux has the xattr command. The restrictions
> added by macOS are a whole additional layer.
That is important to know, thanks
> The exec-path-from-shell package is a common mechanism used to ensure
> the path is configured to include additional directories and is
> primarily needed because starting Emacs from the dock or Applications
> folder does not run the process as a child of the user's login shell.
> Another approach is to add the paths to either the /etc/paths or put
> them in a file in /etc/paths.d, which sets the system wide paths which
I'd rather prefer not to mess up with these files, or only as a method
of last resort.
> all applications will then see. Of course, this doesn't solve the issue
> of other environment variable settings which might be needed. For
> simplicity, I will often just add these directly in my init.el, but this
> isn't optimal as now you have two places to maintain such things (from
> memory, I think the exec-path-from-shell package can help with these
> more general non-path environment settings as well).
Right I think I will give that exec-path-from-shell a try.
Thanks
Uwe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-04 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-31 22:52 Emacs on macOS Perry Smith
2022-04-01 7:55 ` Po Lu
2022-04-01 10:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-03 7:04 ` [Add xattr to the INSTALLATION file?] (was: Emacs on macOS) Uwe Brauer
2022-04-03 13:45 ` Emacs on macOS Alan Third
2022-04-03 17:20 ` [script vs ICon: latex binaries not found] (was: Emacs on macOS) Uwe Brauer
[not found] ` <m2k0c6ozgm.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
2022-04-04 3:05 ` chad
2022-04-04 8:38 ` Tim Cross
2022-04-04 20:06 ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2022-04-04 20:03 ` [script vs ICon: latex binaries not found] Uwe Brauer
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