Why does my vim command-line path differ from my shell PATH?

Question

e.g.,

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:~/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.2.3/bin

$ vim 
:! echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin         


        

Answer 1

There are many similar questions on stackoverflow and stackexchange.

Your shell executes different *rc files depending on the arguments its given at launch time. Therefore, you need to setup Vim so that it launchs your shell with the right arguments.

The following helps in bash, I'm almost certain there's a similar flag in zsh.

set shell=bash\ -i

See $ man zsh for the right flag and the right execution order.