* Emacs on Mac 10.7 (Lion): how to get PATH as in terminal?
@ 2011-10-23 20:58 Marius Hofert
2011-10-23 21:17 ` Perry Smith
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Marius Hofert @ 2011-10-23 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs help
Hi,
I know this is an old problem, but I still couldn't figure it out with the tricks I found.
I work with the emacs 23.3 on Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion), installed from http://emacsformacosx.com/
When I open a shell with M-x shell and type echo $PATH, I get:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
When I do the same in Mac's Terminal, I get:
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
Question: How do I get the same PATH in emacs than in the terminal?
Trials:
1) fixpath.el:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/fixpath"); see https://svn.fsg.ulaval.ca/svn-pub/vgoulet/emacs-modified/macos/tags/Emacs-23.3-modified-3/fixpath.el
(require 'fixpath)
2) emacs wiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc2)
;; add "defaults..." to /etc/profile:
if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
defaults write $HOME/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$PATH"
fi
;; add the following to .emacs:
(add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/bin")
3) another solution posted on the emacs wiki page:
;; read in PATH from .bashrc (and add at least those directories)
;; see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc5
(if (not (getenv "TERM_PROGRAM"))
(setenv "PATH"
(shell-command-to-string "source $HOME/.bashrc && printf $PATH")))
Cheers,
Marius
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread* Re: Emacs on Mac 10.7 (Lion): how to get PATH as in terminal? 2011-10-23 20:58 Emacs on Mac 10.7 (Lion): how to get PATH as in terminal? Marius Hofert @ 2011-10-23 21:17 ` Perry Smith 2011-10-23 21:57 ` Marius Hofert 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Perry Smith @ 2011-10-23 21:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Marius Hofert; +Cc: Emacs help On Oct 23, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Marius Hofert wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is an old problem, but I still couldn't figure it out with the tricks I found. > I work with the emacs 23.3 on Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion), installed from http://emacsformacosx.com/ > When I open a shell with M-x shell and type echo $PATH, I get: > /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin > When I do the same in Mac's Terminal, I get: > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin > > Question: How do I get the same PATH in emacs than in the terminal? > > Trials: > > 1) fixpath.el: > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/fixpath"); see https://svn.fsg.ulaval.ca/svn-pub/vgoulet/emacs-modified/macos/tags/Emacs-23.3-modified-3/fixpath.el > (require 'fixpath) > > 2) emacs wiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc2) > ;; add "defaults..." to /etc/profile: > if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then > eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s` > defaults write $HOME/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$PATH" > fi > ;; add the following to .emacs: > (add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/bin") > > 3) another solution posted on the emacs wiki page: > ;; read in PATH from .bashrc (and add at least those directories) > ;; see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc5 > (if (not (getenv "TERM_PROGRAM")) > (setenv "PATH" > (shell-command-to-string "source $HOME/.bashrc && printf $PATH"))) I did not download the emacs that you did and dig around so I am sorta half guessing. Recently while dinking with rvm, I discovered that bash is not being started with --login. Since the M-x shell has fewer parts in its path, I would suspect that the additional paths are being specified in /etc/profile. Without bash thinking it is a login shell, /etc/profile is not being sourced. One way is to start it with a - as the first character in arg0. The other way is to start it with --login. To explore if this is right: find where the parts for longer path are being set. One choice is /etc/profile, another is your ~/.profile. If these parts are in the profile but not in your .bashrc, then we are likely on the right track. If that is the case, then review explicit-bash-args. You can customize them and add --login see if that works. I'm a bit surprised this isn't done in the stock version of the code. If you have a .profile,.bash_profile, or .bashrc, you can echo the path at the very top of each and open a new term window. This will tell you where / how PATH is being set as it goes through your sequence of login scripts. Hope this helps, pedz ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Emacs on Mac 10.7 (Lion): how to get PATH as in terminal? 2011-10-23 21:17 ` Perry Smith @ 2011-10-23 21:57 ` Marius Hofert 2011-10-23 23:15 ` Perry Smith 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Marius Hofert @ 2011-10-23 21:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Perry Smith; +Cc: Emacs help On 2011-10-23, at 23:17 , Perry Smith wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Marius Hofert wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I know this is an old problem, but I still couldn't figure it out with the tricks I found. >> I work with the emacs 23.3 on Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion), installed from http://emacsformacosx.com/ >> When I open a shell with M-x shell and type echo $PATH, I get: >> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin >> When I do the same in Mac's Terminal, I get: >> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin >> >> Question: How do I get the same PATH in emacs than in the terminal? >> >> Trials: >> >> 1) fixpath.el: >> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/fixpath"); see https://svn.fsg.ulaval.ca/svn-pub/vgoulet/emacs-modified/macos/tags/Emacs-23.3-modified-3/fixpath.el >> (require 'fixpath) >> >> 2) emacs wiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc2) >> ;; add "defaults..." to /etc/profile: >> if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then >> eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s` >> defaults write $HOME/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$PATH" >> fi >> ;; add the following to .emacs: >> (add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/bin") >> >> 3) another solution posted on the emacs wiki page: >> ;; read in PATH from .bashrc (and add at least those directories) >> ;; see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc5 >> (if (not (getenv "TERM_PROGRAM")) >> (setenv "PATH" >> (shell-command-to-string "source $HOME/.bashrc && printf $PATH"))) > > I did not download the emacs that you did and dig around so I am sorta half guessing. > > Recently while dinking with rvm, I discovered that bash is not being started with --login. > > Since the M-x shell has fewer parts in its path, I would suspect that the additional > paths are being specified in /etc/profile. Without bash thinking it is a login shell, > /etc/profile is not being sourced. One way is to start it with a - as the first character in > arg0. The other way is to start it with --login. Dear Perry, thanks a lot for helping. > > To explore if this is right: find where the parts for longer path are being set. One > choice is /etc/profile, another is your ~/.profile. sorry, I should have put this in earlier. So here is my /etc/profile [you still see the defaults write... from one of my trials]: ### /etc/profile ### # System-wide .profile for sh(1) if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s` defaults write $HOME/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$PATH" fi if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc fi ############### Here is ~/.profile [the last export is to call the same emacs when typing "emacs" in the Mac's terminal; otherwise, the preinstalled (old) emacs version is called]: ### ~/.profile ### [ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc; # MacPorts Installer addition on 2011-09-30_at_10:26:19: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts. export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin # Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts. # make /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/emacs available when calling "emacs" export PATH=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:$PATH ############### > If these parts are in the profile but > not in your .bashrc, then we are likely on the right track. My .bashrc only contains some aliases and export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > > If that is the case, then review explicit-bash-args. You can customize them and add --login > see if that works. I'm a bit surprised this isn't done in the stock version of the code. Thanks for the hint!!! I found this (see http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~buja/STAT-540/.emacs): (setq explicit-bash-args (list "--login" "-i")) I put it into .emacs and started emacs again. M-x shell now shows precisely the same PATH as in the terminal. The only thing I'm wondering is: If this is really the perfect solution, why is it not mentioned on http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp ? It seems to be much simpler than the other solutions posted, and (as I wrote) the other solutions even did not work for me. Cheers, Marius > > If you have a .profile,.bash_profile, > or .bashrc, you can echo the path at the very top of each and open a new term window. This will > tell you where / how PATH is being set as it goes through your sequence of login scripts. > > Hope this helps, > pedz > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Emacs on Mac 10.7 (Lion): how to get PATH as in terminal? 2011-10-23 21:57 ` Marius Hofert @ 2011-10-23 23:15 ` Perry Smith 2011-10-23 23:16 ` Marius Hofert 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Perry Smith @ 2011-10-23 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Marius Hofert; +Cc: Emacs help On Oct 23, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Marius Hofert wrote: > > On 2011-10-23, at 23:17 , Perry Smith wrote: > >> >> On Oct 23, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Marius Hofert wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I know this is an old problem, but I still couldn't figure it out with the tricks I found. >>> I work with the emacs 23.3 on Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion), installed from http://emacsformacosx.com/ >>> When I open a shell with M-x shell and type echo $PATH, I get: >>> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin >>> When I do the same in Mac's Terminal, I get: >>> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin >>> >>> Question: How do I get the same PATH in emacs than in the terminal? >>> >>> Trials: >>> >>> 1) fixpath.el: >>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/fixpath"); see https://svn.fsg.ulaval.ca/svn-pub/vgoulet/emacs-modified/macos/tags/Emacs-23.3-modified-3/fixpath.el >>> (require 'fixpath) >>> >>> 2) emacs wiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc2) >>> ;; add "defaults..." to /etc/profile: >>> if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then >>> eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s` >>> defaults write $HOME/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$PATH" >>> fi >>> ;; add the following to .emacs: >>> (add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/bin") >>> >>> 3) another solution posted on the emacs wiki page: >>> ;; read in PATH from .bashrc (and add at least those directories) >>> ;; see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc5 >>> (if (not (getenv "TERM_PROGRAM")) >>> (setenv "PATH" >>> (shell-command-to-string "source $HOME/.bashrc && printf $PATH"))) >> >> I did not download the emacs that you did and dig around so I am sorta half guessing. >> >> Recently while dinking with rvm, I discovered that bash is not being started with --login. >> >> Since the M-x shell has fewer parts in its path, I would suspect that the additional >> paths are being specified in /etc/profile. Without bash thinking it is a login shell, >> /etc/profile is not being sourced. One way is to start it with a - as the first character in >> arg0. The other way is to start it with --login. > > Dear Perry, > > thanks a lot for helping. > >> >> To explore if this is right: find where the parts for longer path are being set. One >> choice is /etc/profile, another is your ~/.profile. > > sorry, I should have put this in earlier. So here is my /etc/profile [you still see the defaults write... from one of my trials]: > > ### /etc/profile ### > > # System-wide .profile for sh(1) > > if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then > eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s` > defaults write $HOME/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$PATH" > fi > > if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then > [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc > fi > > ############### > > Here is ~/.profile [the last export is to call the same emacs when typing "emacs" in the Mac's terminal; otherwise, the preinstalled (old) emacs version is called]: > > ### ~/.profile ### > > [ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc; > > # MacPorts Installer addition on 2011-09-30_at_10:26:19: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts. > export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin > # Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts. > > # make /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/emacs available when calling "emacs" > export PATH=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:$PATH > > ############### > > >> If these parts are in the profile but >> not in your .bashrc, then we are likely on the right track. > > My .bashrc only contains some aliases and export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > >> >> If that is the case, then review explicit-bash-args. You can customize them and add --login >> see if that works. I'm a bit surprised this isn't done in the stock version of the code. > > Thanks for the hint!!! I found this (see http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~buja/STAT-540/.emacs): > (setq explicit-bash-args (list "--login" "-i")) > I put it into .emacs and started emacs again. M-x shell now shows precisely the same PATH as in the terminal. > The only thing I'm wondering is: If this is really the perfect solution, why is it not mentioned on http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp ? It seems to be much simpler than the other solutions posted, and (as I wrote) the other solutions even did not work for me. Yea. I bumped into this recently. I'm surprised that it does not kick off the shell using "-sh" as argv[0] since some shells *only* grok that method of starting a login shell. I guess the emacs developers do not see *shell* as a "login" shell. LIke you, I'm surprised. pedz ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Emacs on Mac 10.7 (Lion): how to get PATH as in terminal? 2011-10-23 23:15 ` Perry Smith @ 2011-10-23 23:16 ` Marius Hofert 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Marius Hofert @ 2011-10-23 23:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Perry Smith; +Cc: Emacs help Dear Perry, thanks a lot for your kind and very quick help. Cheers, Marius On 2011-10-24, at 01:15 , Perry Smith wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Marius Hofert wrote: > >> >> On 2011-10-23, at 23:17 , Perry Smith wrote: >> >>> >>> On Oct 23, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Marius Hofert wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I know this is an old problem, but I still couldn't figure it out with the tricks I found. >>>> I work with the emacs 23.3 on Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion), installed from http://emacsformacosx.com/ >>>> When I open a shell with M-x shell and type echo $PATH, I get: >>>> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin >>>> When I do the same in Mac's Terminal, I get: >>>> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin >>>> >>>> Question: How do I get the same PATH in emacs than in the terminal? >>>> >>>> Trials: >>>> >>>> 1) fixpath.el: >>>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/fixpath"); see https://svn.fsg.ulaval.ca/svn-pub/vgoulet/emacs-modified/macos/tags/Emacs-23.3-modified-3/fixpath.el >>>> (require 'fixpath) >>>> >>>> 2) emacs wiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc2) >>>> ;; add "defaults..." to /etc/profile: >>>> if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then >>>> eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s` >>>> defaults write $HOME/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$PATH" >>>> fi >>>> ;; add the following to .emacs: >>>> (add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/bin") >>>> >>>> 3) another solution posted on the emacs wiki page: >>>> ;; read in PATH from .bashrc (and add at least those directories) >>>> ;; see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc5 >>>> (if (not (getenv "TERM_PROGRAM")) >>>> (setenv "PATH" >>>> (shell-command-to-string "source $HOME/.bashrc && printf $PATH"))) >>> >>> I did not download the emacs that you did and dig around so I am sorta half guessing. >>> >>> Recently while dinking with rvm, I discovered that bash is not being started with --login. >>> >>> Since the M-x shell has fewer parts in its path, I would suspect that the additional >>> paths are being specified in /etc/profile. Without bash thinking it is a login shell, >>> /etc/profile is not being sourced. One way is to start it with a - as the first character in >>> arg0. The other way is to start it with --login. >> >> Dear Perry, >> >> thanks a lot for helping. >> >>> >>> To explore if this is right: find where the parts for longer path are being set. One >>> choice is /etc/profile, another is your ~/.profile. >> >> sorry, I should have put this in earlier. So here is my /etc/profile [you still see the defaults write... from one of my trials]: >> >> ### /etc/profile ### >> >> # System-wide .profile for sh(1) >> >> if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then >> eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s` >> defaults write $HOME/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$PATH" >> fi >> >> if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then >> [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc >> fi >> >> ############### >> >> Here is ~/.profile [the last export is to call the same emacs when typing "emacs" in the Mac's terminal; otherwise, the preinstalled (old) emacs version is called]: >> >> ### ~/.profile ### >> >> [ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc; >> >> # MacPorts Installer addition on 2011-09-30_at_10:26:19: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts. >> export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin >> # Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts. >> >> # make /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/emacs available when calling "emacs" >> export PATH=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:$PATH >> >> ############### >> >> >>> If these parts are in the profile but >>> not in your .bashrc, then we are likely on the right track. >> >> My .bashrc only contains some aliases and export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 >> >>> >>> If that is the case, then review explicit-bash-args. You can customize them and add --login >>> see if that works. I'm a bit surprised this isn't done in the stock version of the code. >> >> Thanks for the hint!!! I found this (see http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~buja/STAT-540/.emacs): >> (setq explicit-bash-args (list "--login" "-i")) >> I put it into .emacs and started emacs again. M-x shell now shows precisely the same PATH as in the terminal. >> The only thing I'm wondering is: If this is really the perfect solution, why is it not mentioned on http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp ? It seems to be much simpler than the other solutions posted, and (as I wrote) the other solutions even did not work for me. > > Yea. I bumped into this recently. I'm surprised that it does not kick off the shell using "-sh" as argv[0] since some shells *only* grok that method of starting a login shell. > > I guess the emacs developers do not see *shell* as a "login" shell. > > LIke you, I'm surprised. > > pedz > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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