On 4/25/06, Nick Pilon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you try to add a directory that doesn't exist to your PATH using a
> copy of fish built from the current darcs source, you get a whole lot
> of confusing errors:
>
> set: Could not add component /foo to PATH.
> set: Value too large to be stored in data type
>
> Not only does this not explain what the problem is, but you get it
> repeated a whole bunch of times. (Every time fish launches a subshell,
> I think) The Right Thing To Do would seem to be to have a sensible
> error message (set: Directory does not exist) displayed exactly once.


On my system:

fish> set PATH $PATH /fdsa
set: Could not add component /fdsa to PATH.
set: No such file or directory

E.g it works exactly as you describe. Any insights into why this is
broken on OS X is welcome.

>
> --
> -Nick Pilon
>

--
Axel


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