[TxMt] Installed MacTex and now I'm despairing

[Niels Kobschaetzki]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:02 PM, jiho <jo.irisson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On 2008-March-16  , at 16:40 , Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>
>  > My tip: the path-variable TextMate uses doesn't include /usr/texbin
>  > When I type env in the Terminal I get a PATH that includes /usr/texbin
>  > but it seems that the stuff from .bash_login is only read in my
>  > session when I type . ~/.bash_login
>  > Therefore I guess there was a change in Mac OS X where my stuff gets
>  > its environment from.
>
>  I use ~/.bash_profile to set my environment and it gets picked up by
>  leopard's terminal.
>
>
>  > My question:
>  > How do I get TeX working again in TextMate (and maybe: How do I get
>  > Terminal to use .bash_login always)?
>
>  Add a PATH shell variable in TextMate (in the prefs>advanced>shell
>  variables) which includes /usr/texbin
>
>  or
>
>  Set the path in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist and it gets picked up by
>  all applications.
>  For example mine is:
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>  <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple
>  .
>  com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
>  <plist version="1.0">
>  <dict>
>          <key>EDITOR</key>
>          <string>mate -w</string>
>          <key>LC_CTYPE</key>
>          <string>en_US.UTF-8</string>
>          <key>PATH</key>
>          <string>/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Developer/
>  Tools:/usr
>  /local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin</string>
>  </dict>
>  </plist>

Thx for that :)

>  PS: if I remember well you need to log out and back in for changes to
>  this file to be picked up.

I guess so

>  PPS: For some reason, you also have to set the PATH in ~/.bash_profile
>  for use in Terminal since Terminal rereads its environment on startup
>  (and hence overwrites the PATH you set here). There must be a way to
>  avoid this and have only one place where the environment is set but I
>  could not make it work on my machine.

I have no .bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile -- different
web-sites all use one of those files, rarely the same…it seems that
nowadays .bash_profile is the one to go…and I'm quite sure that in
earlier versions of OS X I needed one of those other files…

Niels

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