Re: path, cwd in NS port

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Thu, 28 May 2020 21:46:48 +0100 Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> Does it definitely work in Emacs 26? I've had this
> 
>       ((string-equal system-type "darwin")
>        (setq default-directory (concat (getenv "HOME") "/"))

Yes; I've confirmed it works in Emacs 26 but not 27.

> > 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.

That's possible, though I think the cleanest solution would be for
Emacs to set something itself using Info.plist

> Why not use exec-path-from-shell?

exec-path-from-shell seems to be a third party package that I did not
previously know existed.

Perry
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