[OS X Emacs] where does Mac OS X set default PATH for bash?

Art Werschulz agw at comcast.net
Fri Nov 14 15:07:12 EST 2008


Hi.

On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Erik Husby wrote:

> Look in these places for bash setups
>
> /etc/profile -- system wide
> ~/.profile -- personal initialization
> ~/.bash_profile -- personal initialization
> ~/.bash_login -- personal initialization
> ~/.bashrc -- personal initialization

I should've added one more datapoint, namely, that since I know my way  
around Unix pretty well, I had already checked the usual suspects.  No  
dice.

> In addition, on Mac OS X, the file
> ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
> Can be used to define environment variables for applications not  
> started from a shell.

AHA!  That's the culprit.  Thanks!!

Art Werschulz
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