From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Edward O'Connor" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:53:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302728063 12542 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2011 20:54:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: "Young, Ed" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 13 22:54:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QA74t-0005bt-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:54:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33248 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QA74s-0001Fu-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43652) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QA74n-0001Fe-Lw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:54:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QA74m-0007rD-UD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:39061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QA74m-0007r5-LQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so1046628wyf.0 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:54:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=xL1YvWjf3mEf4A1IUe+z7gvOBQVGGgsFfjDqdB1iSRo=; b=vK8U2gy3sU0MiLIpT9x8ddj3Z4ELxuynd6saebaC122gyTgrTErWFMKnvNEu0/owXt wKPSSMcyglh8IOl4L0stIg2G0o7yumHw3QvfYpxOmsaFZ8Spy/vpzzrMB98vKXYYz2Gg GfVa7LfGhKw4+FYBcnFn0iNTe9/WbZh4p3hSk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=CvsXtAvZoRCAMvdJTGmOAt0KpPUBPV2Mj/z7hqrn/mlskzGCTQaF8F/RUBme4eacPo SU7QmBKe5YDjNDwGAZRSXnM1bcwVgQRODPPf1LTHzoV61gS5aZq7zQ1L6KYiWBjgFbiO xNodz0R8qOqF9BmQ7epXBI5HDboQNlcjgC/tI= Original-Received: by 10.216.142.165 with SMTP id i37mr2660597wej.106.1302728051193; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.69.208 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:53:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80780 Archived-At: > Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this. If so please redirect me. > I am running emacs on MacOSX, installed from a DMG file. > It works great, but it is not aware of my path, so I can't execute commands > like 'git' or 'svn' etc. > How can I configure it to be aware of my path. I'm using the global path > variable file /etc/profile. /etc/profile only affects the Bourne shell or processes descended from such a shell. If you want global path changes to be visible to all programs, use /etc/paths & /etc/paths.d/ HTH. Ted