Re: ESS/Matlab Path in Cocoa Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Actually, AFAIK the exact same problem appears in X-windows when you
>> start Emacs from the GUI and you set your PATH in your shell's
>> config file.
> One solution is to set PATH in X11' startup file, ~/.xinitrc.

This is way off-topic here, obviously.

And, yes, there are various workarounds (as you'd expect for a problem
that has existed for so many years), but it's never quite that easy: the
.xinitrc file doesn't exist, so you have to create it and know what to
put into it, and then that presumes the display manager actually uses it
(does it?  or does it use ~/.xsession?  or does it use neither?  or
does it depends on the kind of session you choose at login? ...)
IOW it's a (very longstanding) mess.


        Stefan