Re: path, cwd in NS port

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> On May 29, 2020, at 5:50 AM, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?

For me, (as with other people) this was only a problem in Emacs 27 — in Emacs 
26 it worked in my machine.

> 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?
> -- 
> Alan Third
>