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Make Emacs use the $PATH set up by the user's shell

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2013-09-04 · latest 2025-08-06

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  1. For your particular shell issue: https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell It can extract PATH and other environment variables from your login shell configuration.
    comment by frumplestlatz · 2025-08-06 · in Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs
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    Exec-path-from-shell: Make Emacs use the $PATH set in your shell
    story by fanf2 · 2025-03-22 · 0 comments
  3. …because of the way OSX loads environment variables. Here's an Emacs package that fixes that: https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell
    comment by intranation · 2013-09-04 · in Start Using Emacs – A Thorough Guide for Beginners