Re: Possible bug with chere 1.4 when configuring for fish

[Dave Kilroy <kilroyd at googlemail dot com>]

On 07/04/2014 23:35, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> On 07/04/2014 13:02, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> > I have installed fish 2.1.0. Works fine, when invoking a new fish shell
> > manually.
> >
> > However, when doing a
> >
> >     chere -ifcm -t mintty -s fish
> >
> > and invoke the new fish shell from the Windows Explorer context menu, I
> > get plenty of error messages, like this:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > (more of this kind follow).
> >
> > This looks like there is a problem the PATH, but this happens even when
> > I use the -2 on chere when installing the shell. Note that bash or zsh
> > shells installed via cygwin work fine.
> Thanks for the report.
>
> I've just checked my x86_64 and x86 installation. Things are working 
> on my installation as I have c:\cygwin\bin on my standard windows 
> path. When I remove it and invoke fish, I get the errors that you 
> highlight. Similarly when echo'ing $PATH under the broken fish, 
> /usr/bin is not one of the entries.
>
> I need to have a play around to see how I can fix this, but I thought 
> cygwin prepended /usr/bin to the path...
I've had more time to look around. If you add the following to the file 
~/.config/fish/config.fish (create it if you haven't already got one), 
then things should work as intended:

if status --is-login
	set PATH /usr/local/bin /usr/bin $PATH
end

Alternatively drop it in the fish global startup file, 
/usr/share/fish/config.fish. Konrad, would you consider adding the above 
fragment to config.fish in the next release? That should bring fish into 
line with the other shells*. You might also consider adding some of the 
other environment variables like PRINTER etc etc.


Thanks,

Dave.
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* FYI
Bash gets /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin prefixed to its path by 
/etc/profile (supplied by base-files)
mksh and posh also use /etc/profile
tcsh gets these prefixed by /etc/csh.login (supplied by tcsh)
zsh uses /etc/zprofile (supplied by zsh)




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