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Asked: 2026-06-03T17:43:21+00:00

In trying to harmonize environments between a ZSH session and the vim/macvim access of

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In trying to harmonize environments between a ZSH session and the vim/macvim access of the shell, a which ruby from the shell shows $HOME/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3/bin/ruby, which is good, while from inside vim/macvim a !which ruby shows /opt/local/bin/ruby, which is bad.

I thought copying the invocation of RVM from .zshrc to .zshenv would work but doing so interferes with other utilities. After several days trying to sort this out, I feel stumped. Any suggestions of where documentation to resolve this can be found would be most appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t know if it applies to zsh but depending on how it’s started, bash reads some files and not others. Having this line in my ~/.vimrc ensures that $PATH is the same in Vim and in my shell.

    set shell=bash\ -i

    But it depends on how you start/customize your shell.

    See :help 'shell' and zsh’s manual.

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