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isaacsloan
isaacsloan

Reputation: 895

Bash Commands from vim

When I run bash commands from inside of vim I notice that the path is all wrong. Is there a way inside of my .vimrc to have it load my .bash_profile or just inherit the PATH and alias settings from the terminal it's launched from?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2097

Answers (2)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172768

If you've properly done export PATH in your profile, Vim should inherit the shell's PATH setting. You can check via :echo $PATH from inside Vim, and also manipulate it via :let $PATH .= ':/additional/path'.

If you also need aliases, you have to use Kent's solution. A word of caution: With this modification of 'shellcmdflag', you may (depending on the complexity of your shell environment) incur a runtime penalty for every shell invocation from Vim.

Upvotes: 2

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195269

if you define the shell as interactive, vim will load your .bashrc or .bash_profile. Default it is not loaded.

This can be done by:

:set shellcmdflag=-ic

default is only -c, :h shellcmdflag to see detail. of course you could add it in your .vimrc file.

Upvotes: 7

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