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[NonGNU ELPA] Exec-Path-From-Shell version 2.1


From: ELPA update
Subject: [NonGNU ELPA] Exec-Path-From-Shell version 2.1
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 05:04:40 -0400

Version 2.1 of package Exec-Path-From-Shell has just been released in NonGNU 
ELPA.
You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.

Exec-Path-From-Shell describes itself as:

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  Get environment variables such as $PATH from the shell
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More at https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/exec-path-from-shell.html

## Summary:

  On OS X (and perhaps elsewhere) the $PATH environment variable and
  `exec-path' used by a windowed Emacs instance will usually be the
  system-wide default path, rather than that seen in a terminal
  window.

  This library allows the user to set Emacs' `exec-path' and $PATH
  from the shell path, so that `shell-command', `compile' and the
  like work as expected.

  It also allows other environment variables to be retrieved from the
  shell, so that Emacs will see the same values you get in a terminal.

  If you use a non-POSIX-standard shell like "tcsh" or "fish", your
  shell will be asked to execute "sh" as a subshell in order to print
  out the variables in a format which can be reliably parsed.  "sh"
  must be a POSIX-compliant shell in this case.

  Note that shell variables which have not been exported as

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