Hacker News with Generative AI: Environment Variables

Exec-path-from-shell: Make Emacs use the $PATH set in your shell (github.com/purcell)
A GNU Emacs library to ensure environment variables inside Emacs look the same as in the user's shell.
How to add a directory to your PATH (jvns.ca)
I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of the steps – a lot of them just said “add this to ~/.bashrc”, but what if you’re not using bash?
Ask HN: Why is Cursor IDE accessing all my env vars? (ycombinator.com)
Recently I tried playing with https://www.cursor.com/ but got spooked by the LuLu alert (https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html) when launching the app, where the process args included "JSON.stringify(process.env)" part, see screenshot here: https://imgur.com/a/DmDuGTz<p>Is this... normal? I don't understand why they might want to serialize/access all of my env vars. Does anyone have a suggestion for that behaviour? I'm probably missing some reasonable explanation, happy to learn more.
Modern Path Environment Variable (izissise.net)
The PATH environment variable is read by the shell or libc to find and execute programs, this is how the shell can find /bin/ls when ls is typed in a terminal.
DMNO: Environment Variables Evolved (dmno.dev)
DMNO makes your configuration safer and smarter. It integrates with the tools you already use and it's powered by TypeScript and Vite.
Show HN: CLI tool that allows you to encrypt and decrypt your env variables (github.com/ulisesojeda)
An epic environment manager to fix local environment variable management (github.com/danthegoodman1)
Dotenvx: A better dotenv – from the creator of `dotenv` (github.com/dotenvx)
Show HN: Envelope – A modern environment variable cli tool (github.com/mattrighetti)