I installed the fish shell from mp a few days ago, and I’ve been loving it so far, but I’ve been wondering about where certain environment variables get set on startup…
On starting the shell, (within zsh at the moment, because fish isn’t yet my default shell, since I am only just now learning it), it already seems to know all of the environment variables eg: $PATH, $CPATH, $CLASSPATH, etc, that I set from within the zsh initialization files. Is it reading my zsh initialization files to get that information, or or getting that information from some other source? When I finally switch to fish as a default shell do I need to write those environment variables into a fish config file for fish to find it, or will it somehow find it on its own? I’ve read the fish documentation, and it isn’t totally clear on this point.
