From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Crossley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inherit the path environment from .bash_profile (Mac OS 10.5) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:04:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <00986741-2EF9-49E3-8148-0584E62C3E66@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281104196 6676 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 14:16:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:16:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 16:16:35 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 1OhNis-0001eY-Nw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:16:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhNir-0008Un-BG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41251 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhNhw-0008NB-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhNXl-0006rg-2s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhNXk-0006rY-Td for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhNXj-0002rw-Of for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 68-191-241-106.dhcp.gwnt.ga.charter.com ([68.191.241.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from jcrossley by 68-191-241-106.dhcp.gwnt.ga.charter.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:05:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68-191-241-106.dhcp.gwnt.ga.charter.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AIUpqlZPLkiTKlMBBvtk2xjQ+so= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74477 Archived-At: 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. Jim