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Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX
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Peter Dyballa |
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Re: How to make emacs path aware on MacOSX |
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Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:18:04 +0200 |
Am 14.04.2011 um 14:19 schrieb Young, Ed:
Sorry, but that doesn't make any sense to me. If I define a variable
in
the environment.plist file,
I did not understand completely what you wrote and assumed that you
were still referring to the usual files a shell interpreter is reading
when it is started.
and then log out and back in (that's a pain) the variables are
available.
Mac OS X allows to set up some so-called "Startup Items"...
The problem is when I try to embed a variable in the value of another
variable:
SW_HOME /opt/comcast/software
GROOVY_HOME $SW_HOME/groovy/current
In the case above, SW_HOME doesn't resolve correctly in the
GROOVY_HOME
variable.
That's indeed not possible inside ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. It's
just a simple text, or, better: XML file. Inside it no substitution
happens. With GNU Emacs or some other editor it's really not that
complicated to substitute variable names with the contents they stand
for.
OTOH, a shell should be able resolve a setting like "$SW_HOME/groovy/
current" when "$SW_HOME" is given. Proof:
ls -l $SW_HOME/groovy/current
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