Re: Inferior process mystery

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Ivan Andrus <address@hidden> writes:

> Since you're on a Mac, GUI applications don't inherit from your shell.
> Instead you should set environment variables in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist,
> or see [1] for a number of other ways to set them and the different problems
> they have.

I use ~/.MacOSX/environment for _all_ environment variables, and then put this
in my .zshrc:

  if [ -x $HOME/bin/shell-args ]; then
    eval `$HOME/bin/shell-args`
  if

And that script does this:

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  $MULTILINE_MATCHING = 1;
  
  open(ARGS, "~/.MacOSX/environment.plist") || die;
  
  while (<ARGS>) {
      print "export $1" if /<key>(.+?)<\/key>/;
      print "=\"$1\"\n" if /<string>(.+?)<\/string>/;
  }

That way, I only have to consider a single place.

John