Is Emacs started from the Shell or as a standalone application?

I just have (setenv "FOO" "bar") in my emacs config on macOS. I think there is another way to do it on macOS, but I forget what it is

https://superuser.com/questions/1609942/how-to-set-environment-variables-on-macos-using-a-gui

@U0N9SJHCH Standalone app

This might help https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell

This plus direnv also seems to work for the case when I use that https://github.com/purcell/envrc

(use-package envrc
 :config
 (envrc-global-mode))

Couldn’t solve the issue 🤷 tried all packages and configurations. Trying terminal-based emacs.

What happens if you do M-x setenv, then enter FOO, then bar, then start a repl (after running setenv), and execute (System/getenv "FOO") in it? If that works, and you have only a small set of variables that you need, (setenv "FOO" "bar") in your config should work

Yeah and also if I provide a var alias in exec-path-from-shell-copy-env then Emacs GUI loads the variable, but the project has dozens of such vars, and I wonder why the library doesn’t automatically load login shell env-vars.

Presumably macOS doesn't make those available to applications. Doesn't exec-path-from-shell start a shell process to get them?

If I had a lot of variables, specific to one project, I would put exports for them in .envrc in the project directory, run direnv allow in there in a shell, then use envrc

Surprisingly enough I encountered the same issue in Emacs GUI in Manjaro Linux machine :thinking_face: I thought MacOS/M1 was to blame

Yeah, me too, but that’s how the client has it done across all projects.

Regarding shell process - not sure, is there a way to check?

On Linux, I think it depends on where you set them. Possibly /.profile is sourced when Xorg starts, but not /.bashrc (or the latter might exit early when not being used in an interactive shell).

Use the source, Luke 😁

@U015KH5ENEM Thanks! it turns out zsh keeps env variables in .zshenv and Emacs GUI managed to eventually source those vars.

@U2HBNQQBE how did you fix it in the end?

@U0525KG62 added vars to .zshenv

🆒

thx

Cheers!