e.g.,
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:~/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.2.3/bin
$ vim
:! echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:~/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.2.3/bin
I expected them to be the same. Why are they different?
If it makes a difference, here is my shell, vim version and OS version:
$ echo $SHELL
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/zsh
$ /usr/local/bin/zsh --version
zsh 5.0.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0.0)
$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jun 20 2012 13:16:02)
Compiled by root@apple.com
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.8.2
BuildVersion: 12C60
(Mountain Lion)
This is a known
problem introduced by
Apple in OS X 10.5 Leopard.
If you are using Bash or Zsh and are using non-interactive shells, you
are affected.
Running sudo chmod ugo-x /usr/libexec/path_helper
will fix you up,
but you should take a look at the article to see why.
From this SO answer
There are many similar questions on SO and SU.
Your shell executes different *rc files depending on the arguments its given at launch time. Therefore, you need to setup Vim so that it launchs your shell with the right arguments.
The following helps in bash, I'm almost certain there's a similar flag in zsh.
set shell=bash\ -i
See $ man zsh
for the right flag and the right execution order.
I was not able to resolve this with zsh, and ended up using bash for my vim shell.
Here's what I did:
- modified my .zshrc to work with bash
ln -s .zshrc .bashrc
- added
set shell=bash
to my .vimrc file
and now my vim command-line PATH is equal to my zsh shell PATH.
I don't use mac or zsh (I am on linux), however I ran into this problem when I ran gvim from the MATE Menu.
I solved it by adding this to my .vimrc:
if $PATH !~ "\.rbenv"
let $PATH="/home/username/.rbenv/shims:/home/username/.rbenv/bin:" . $PATH
endif
This avoids setting it if you run vim from a terminal, otherwise the rbenv paths would be included twice.
I tried setting the application to run via a terminal, but that didn't help.