On 23 Dec 2009, at 18:39, Edward Marczak wrote: > I *don't* see this behavior. I essentially do the same as you: build > up the PATH variable in my .bash_profile. > > Are you setting this anyplace else? Do you see the same doubling > effect if you just echo $PATH in a shell? Or is it only in MacVim?
In [Snow] Leopard, Apple started using a utility called path_helper to generate system paths. It reads a file /etc/paths and a list of files in /etc/paths.d/ which set the system path in $PATH. /usr/local/bin is listed by default in etc/paths after other the other binary paths. This may be the cause of the behavior you are seeing since your profile adds /usr/local/bin to the front and keeps it at the back. Dave -- "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -- C. A. R. "Tony" Hoare -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
