Re: environment settings

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stephane,

Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:30:46PM +0200, Marcus Franke wrote:
> [...]
>> > environment variables can be defined in the ~/.zprofile. Then
>> > they are set once, when you log in and inherited by every
>> > process. But make sure whatever process logs ou in if it's not
>> > your login shell, does read that .zprofile. You might have to do
>> > it in .profile and have .zprofile source that .profile.
>> 
>> My .zshrc just had the "EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim" line but without using
>> export :(
> [...]
>
> Which in a way makes sense though is not very useful. ~/.zshrc
> is your shell configuration file. ~/.zprofile is you session
> configuration file.
>
> Generally, in ~/.zshrc, you put stuff that affects the behavior
> of interactive shells (sets shell options, defines shell
> aliases, configure completions).
>
> In ~/.zprofile, you define what affects any process started in
> your session not necessarily only the shell processes.

And what's the meaning of .zshenv? I use it for my environment variables
like EDITOR, because my session is started by X.

Bye, Jörg.
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