Making the PATH and other environment variables available in emacs

Question

Working with emacs in OSX can some times be troubling.

I interchange with using the Terminal.app application and the emace shell both of these use bash, and

Answer 1

Just install the awesome little package exec-path-from-shell and you're done! It will automatically set your emacs exec-path to be same as the PATH in your zsh/bash config.

It will also allow you to copy the values of other shell variables like this:

(exec-path-from-shell-copy-env "PYTHONPATH")