Hello Laurence,
How does the shell incorporate the environment variables output by the module?
Do the modules output shell script that is then executed, or something else?
For environment variables that are classically arrays, like PATH, fish stores
them internally as a list, but imports and exports them as strings delimited by
colons, for compatibility. I think it would be unwise to "leak" fish's syntax
into other commands by changing env output to be compatible with fish.
On Apr 17, 2013, at 1:21 PM, L McGlashan <laurence.mcglas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to be able to use environment modules with the fish shell.
> Environment modules allow a user to control their local environment in a
> shell by loading and unloading modules.
>
> The main problem I have come across is the separator for path variables. I
> had started making the required additions and a discussion is here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/modules/discussion/49345/thread/5f0e4f38/#1724
>
> To add the fish shell to modules I can specify the directory separator as a
> space instead of a colon within the modules program. However, the program
> reads in the environment from the environ variable as an argument in the main
> function, which for fish still has the path separator as a colon instead of a
> space. I also see this in the output of 'env' in the fish shell.
>
> My question is whether it is possible or even desirable for 'env' to output
> paths delimited by a space instead of a colon?
>
> Regards,
>
> Laurence
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