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Created May 26, 2011 21:07
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Note to self re: fixing PATH in emacs on Mac
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init.el
;; On Mac OS X, GUI programs do not get a sensible PATH variable (i.e.
;; from /usr/libexec/path_helper). You can mitigate this by setting
;; the PATH variable in the binary plist file at this path:
;;
;; ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
;;
;; Easiest way is using defaults:
;;
;; defaults write $HOME/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin"
;;
;; You will have to log out and back in for this to take effect.
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hober commented May 26, 2011

See also /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d/

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rdj commented May 26, 2011

Sure. Those don't work for programs launched from the GUI, though. I guess /etc/profile doesn't get evaluated until you're actually starting a shell, and that's where /usr/libexec/path_helper builds up the path from /etc/paths and/etc/paths.d/.

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