[OS X Emacs] Re: Environment variables and Aquamacs 2.0
Norman Gray
norman at astro.gla.ac.uk
Wed May 26 15:02:37 EDT 2010
Greetings.
On 2010 May 26, at 19:16, David Reitter wrote:
> On May 26, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
>
>> On 05/26/10 11:57 AM, David Reitter wrote:
>>>
>>> There is no need to use Environment.plist, especially not in 10.6 (this mechanism is obsolete).
Forgive me for butting in, but I'm curious about this remark.
>> That's interesting. Do you have a reference or URL for that? Thanks.
>
> Not at hand, sorry. /etc/paths. Do you know Google?
There may be some talking at cross-purposes here, but I don't think that /etc/paths has much relevance here (since it's simply a way of setting the system-wide default value for PATH).
Also, I don't think that the ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist mechanism is obsolete. Although I can't find a specific reference for this (I'd have thought it would be in loginwindow documentation), the note at [1] gives this file as the canonical way of setting per-user session-wide environment variables. That's dated late 2009, so we can take it that it's current for 10.6.
Slightly puzzled,
Norman
[1] http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPRuntimeConfig/Articles/EnvironmentVars.html
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