Which is weird because it used to. But ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist (easily edited in the plist editor) got deprecated and isn't used any more. Edit: Don't know

Which is weird because it used to. But ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist (easily edited in the plist editor) got deprecated and isn't used any more. Edit: Don't know if you know this, but you can use "launchctl setenv key value" to set environment variables that get used by GUI programs. Unfortunately there are 2 huge caveats: 1) it's not persistent so you need to make something that load them at boot time, and 2) if you load them too late, they won't be part of the Dock or Finder process and you'll need to restart those processes to get your custom env vars in there. When you click something from the Dock, it inherits the environment from the Dock, so it's important to get your vars into the Dock itself. I've now grown used to running a script manually at boot time and then doing "killall Dock" so that when I launch Emacs or XCode I get the right PATH. If someone has a smoother solution, I'd love to hear it.