Re: path, cwd in NS port

[Alan Third]

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:31:37PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2020 19:10:43 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Is this the same problem as discussed in bug#40924?  (I don't use
> > macOS, so apologies if I;m confused about this issue.)
> 
> It's certainly a version of the same issue; something happened such
> that the default CWD is no longer set to ~/ recently. That should be
> fixed independently if anyone knows what changed. (I've noticed this
> issue myself and it is quite irritating.)

Does it definitely work in Emacs 26? I've had this

      ((string-equal system-type "darwin")
       (setq default-directory (concat (getenv "HOME") "/"))

in my init.el since 2015.

> One option that occurred to me was that it would be pretty easy to
> invoke an "echo $PATH" shell command in my .emacs and parse it into
> the exec-path, though I'd prefer only to do this if Emacs was invoked
> a certain way (from the dock, spotlight, etc.) where the PATH is
> known not to be set. 

A cheap and nasty method would be to look for environment variables
normally set by the shell.

Why not use exec-path-from-shell?
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Alan Third