I run Emacs in the daemon mode as a user's systemd unit. However it won't read my environment variables. How to make it import my .bashrc first?
I have multiple paths added in there and want to be able to use them in Emacs (but I don't want to maintain both .bashrc and .emacs by adding them to exec-path).
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Can you please tell use more about what you want to achieve?– Nsukami _Nov 29, 2015 at 21:47
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@Nsukami_, I've updated the question– catemperorNov 29, 2015 at 21:57
2 Answers
You're probably looking for the package exec-path-from-shell. Once it's installed, put this in your .emacs:
(exec-path-from-shell-initialize)
for emacs to read .bashrc on startup. That way you won't have to maintain paths in two places.
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This does not seem to work when I put it in my
init.el
file. Is the.emacs
file a requirement? (That would make it hard to VCS my~/.emacs.d
Jun 15, 2016 at 21:56 -
When I wanted to put Emacs' socket into my encrypted $HOME
, I had to put the definition TMPDIR="$HOME/tmp;export TMPDIR"
in my $HOME/.profile
file, so an early shell would see the definition and pass it in Emacs' ENVIRONMENT
.