[OS X Emacs] Re: Switching from Carbon Emacs to Emacs.app

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Wed Jan 9 18:18:38 EST 2008


Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 09.01.2008 um 16:50 schrieb Rodney Sparapani:
> 
>> There must be a simple way to do this with path_helper.
> 
> if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
>     eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
> fi
> 
> in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login?
> 
> -- 
> Greetings
> 
>   Pete

Not sure what you mean by that.  I meant something like this in .emacs:

(setq exec-path (append exec-path
  (split-string (shell-command-to-string
    (concat "/usr/libexec/path_helper -c | /usr/bin/grep \"setenv PATH\""
            "| /usr/bin/cut -d'\"' -f2 | /usr/bin/tr -d '\012'")) ":")))

On my system, I get:
("/usr/bin" "/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/sbin" 
"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin" "/usr/bin" "/bin" 
"/usr/sbin" "/sbin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/texbin" "/usr/X11/bin")

Note that items 6-9 are duplicates, but 10-12 were not there before.

Rodney




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