$PATH variable not properly set in gvim/MacVim when it is opened from the finder

Question

I am using MacVim (basically gvim for the mac).

If I open macvim from the command line then my $PATH variable will be properly set.

If I ope

Answer 1

I had this same issue but it only appeared after setting my default shell to zsh like so

export SHELL=/bin/zsh

It seems that there is a bug in the OS X zsh setup. The work around in brief is to merge /etc/zshenv into /etc/zprofile. In my case I didn't have a /etc/zprofile so just moving over the file did the trick:

sudo mv /etc/zshenv /etc/zprofile

This post describes the solution in more detail.