Getting Emacs to respect my default shell + options

Question

I\'m trying to get my Emacs shell to mimic that of my standard terminal sessions. Basically I would like it to respect the same PATH as well as the command prompt.

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Answer 1

For the path, there is the package exec-path-from-shell (OS X only).

It gets $MANPATH, $PATH and exec-path from the shell and sets them for emacs.