On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:23:25AM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Dave Land wrote:
>
> > On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Dave Land wrote:
> >
> > > Happily, Apple provided a utility that handles it for you:
> > >
> > > defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment"
> >
> > Actually, making this work in bash (or other shell) requires a little
> > more than just reading the file... Here's the relevant chunk from
> > my .bashrc:
> >
> > # Get environment variables from ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
> > # (This avoids the sin of duplicating data here and in that file)
> > if [[ `uname` == 'Darwin' ]] ; then
> > defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment | grep -v '[{}]' | tr '"' "'" |
> > awk '{ print "declare -x",$1"="$3 }' | while read -r OneLine; do eval
> > $OneLine; done;
> > fi
> >
> > To give credit where it's due, this came from a comment on
> > macosxhints.com.
> >
> > The conditional (if [[ `uname` == "Darwin' ]]) is because I use this
> > same .bashrc across several hosts, including Solaris, Linux, and Mac
> > OS X.
>
> This issue comes up often enough that it deserves a section in the help.
> Could you perhaps write some text? If you can send me a patch that
> would be great.
The docs already explain one way to set $PATH.
:help mac-faq
As it says there, the system vimrc files in the versions distributed at
macvim.org/OSX already use this method. The same method should work for
other environment variables ... but AFAIK the only one that matters is
$PATH.
HTH --Benji Fisher
