Re: Dumb Emacs lilypond-mode question

[Arjan Bos]

On 28 feb 2010, at 08:11, James Bailey wrote:

> If I remember correctly, GUI apps don't by default load your $PATH, there's a 
> trick somewhere to get them to do it, I just don't remember where or how. But 
> that may be what you need.

The trick is not very simple. To have full control over your environment 
variables, like $PATH,  you need the file environment.plist in the ~/.MacOSX 
directory.

Here's my environment.plist. Please adjust it to your settings, because using 
it unmodified is asking for trouble. After changing it, you need to log out an 
log in to effectuate those changes.

environment.plist
Description: Binary data

However, this method can interfere with desktop apps that want some default 
library, instead one on your modified path. So what I do most of the time is to 
open a Terminal.app and issue the `open /Applications/Emacs.app' command. This 
gives me a GUI Emacs with terminal environment.


HTH,
Arjan