>>> Sometimes I add a path to $PATH after login (i.e. after >>> source the .cshrc), and I'm sure I can run that path's >>> command in console, but when I run vim and use :!cmd, then >>> vim will prompt the command not found. >>> I have to add that path to $PATH in .cshrc. >> In Vim, does the following show the correct PATH? >> >> :echo $PATH >> :put =$PATH >> >> The second command will insert it into the current buffer for inspection. > > In my .cshrc: > > set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin > /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin) > > ---- Then I start a screen session in urxvt and set the path: > > $ screen > > $ echo $PATH > /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/anhnmncb/bin > > $ setenv PATH /home/anhnmncb/apps/context/tex/texmf-freebsd/bin:$PATH > > $ echo $PATH > /home/anhnmncb/apps/context/tex/texmf-freebsd/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/anhnmncb/bin > > $ context foo.tex <= runs ok. > > $ vim > > ----- now I do it in vim: > :echo $PATH > /home/anhnmncb/apps/context/tex/texmf-freebsd/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/anhnmncb/bin > > :!context % > context: Command not found.
I think it's because the :! command in Vim starts a new shell. Because your .cshrc sets path, when this new shell is started, the shell reads its .cshrc and clobbers the PATH that it was passed in the environment. You should probably solve this by putting your alteration to path in ~/.login (or ~/.csh.login?) instead of ~/.cshrc so it only happens for a login shell, not every shell, since you actually want non-login shells to inherit the environment from their parent process. Even better would be to have it as an alteration to the system default path in ~/.login (i.e. prepend or append to the existing $PATH rather than setting it outright). Cheers, Ben. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
