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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
  • @Nsukami_, I've updated the question
    – catemperor
    Nov 29, 2015 at 21:57

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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
    – Christophe De Troyer
    Jun 15, 2016 at 21:56
  • Did you first install the package exec-path-from-shell?
    – Emacs User
    Jun 15, 2016 at 22:10
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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.

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