Re: carbon emacs on OS X 10.3 (Panther): how to fix environment?

[Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>]

Hi John,


John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:
> (when (file-readable-p "~/.MacOSX/environment.plist")
>   (with-temp-buffer
>     (insert-file-contents "~/.MacOSX/environment.plist")
>     (let* ((dict (cdr (assoc "dict" (read-xml)))))
>       (while dict
> 	(when (string= "key" (caar dict))
> 	  (setenv (car (cdr (car dict)))
> 		  (car (cdr (cadr dict))))
> 	  (message "Setting %s=%s" (car (cdr (car dict)))
> 		   (car (cdr (cadr dict)))))
> 	(setq dict (cddr dict)))))
>
>   (setq exec-path nil)
>   (dolist (path (nreverse (split-string (getenv "PATH") ":")))
>     (add-to-list 'exec-path path)))

??

Why do you need this?  My understanding is that
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is read by the Finder and that the
variables are inherited automatically by Emacs.

The code should only have an effect, if you log in through SSH, where
the Finder isn't in the loop.  But for that situation you can set the
variables in ~/.cshrc or ~/.bashrc or somewhere similar.

What am I missing?


benny