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

If your environment variables are being set in ~/.bash_profile, Create a file called ~/.emacs_bash and put in it the following:

. ~/.bash_profile

Don't forget the newline at the end of that line or it won't be executed.

~/.emacs_bash is loaded by emacs when you run bash from within it, such as when using M-x shell or shell-command so you can use it to set any environment variables you want available.