That fixed it!
Actually, I removed the flag all together. I'm not sure why it's not needed
at all -- must be some special case with setting PATH
Thanks a lot! now I can get back to piddling!
-Dave
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:41 PM, [email protected]
<[email protected]>wrote:
> path should be set with -U, not -g afaiw.
>
> David Frascone wrote:
>
>
> Ok . . I'm trying to take the plunge, and I'm running into some
> strangnesses that I can't explain. So, I did a chsh to change my login
> shell to fish. And, when I first log in, things work really strangely.
> type, whereis, and a few other scripts do not function properly. BUT -- if
> I then exec, or shell fish again, they do.
>
> And, my path is set completely differently. Ok -- so -- that could just be
> some weird login -vs- interactive shell setting. I get that. But, here's
> the really strange part. In my home directory's config.fish, I have this
> snippet:
>
> if [ -d ~/bin ]
> echo "PATH before: " $PATH
> set -g PATH $PATH ~/bin
> echo "PATH after: " $PATH
> end
>
>
> So, if my ~/bin exists, it will be appended to the path. For the login
> shell, this works. For all other shells, the code executes, but the path
> does NOT change -- WTF?!?!?!
>
> Here's what it looks like when I start with a login shell, then manually
> run fish (even though "type" can't find it, it's still in the path at
> /usr/local/bin/fish -- as shown by the executable "type"). WTF am I doing
> wrong?
>
> Last login: Tue Mar 30 23:17:41 on ttys009
> /usr/local/share/fish/config.fish: /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin
> /usr/local/bin /usr/X11/bin
> /usr/local/etc/fish/config.fish: /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin
> /usr/local/bin /usr/X11/bin
> PATH before: /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11/bin
> PATH after: /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11/bin
> /Users/codemonkey/bin
> ~/.config/fish/config.fish: /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin
> /usr/X11/bin /Users/codemonkey/bin
> Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
> Type help for instructions on how to use fish
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> # We're in the login shell now
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> echo $PATH
> /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11/bin
> /Users/codemonkey/bin
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> type fish
> type: Could not find 'fish'
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> /usr/bin/type fish
> fish is /usr/local/bin/fish
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> echo $version
> 1.23.1.2
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> fish
> /usr/local/share/fish/config.fish: /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
> /usr/local/etc/fish/config.fish: /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
> PATH before: /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
> PATH after: /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
> ~/.config/fish/config.fish: /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
> Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
> Type help for instructions on how to use fish
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> echo $version
> 1.23.1.2
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> type fish
> fish is /usr/local/bin/fish
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> path
> fish: Unknown command 'path'
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> echo $PATH
> /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~> exit
>
> Goodbye
>
> codemon...@daves-mbp ~>
>
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