On 03/13/13 at 09:46pm, Ivan S. Freitas wrote:

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote:

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Hello,

I've noticed that, if one modifies the PATH environment variable in .zshenv, tmux fails to notice this. That is, `echo $PATH` yields different results within and without tmux, with the former being the default path, and the latter the path as modified by .zshenv.

When I update PATH in .zshrc, though, it is picked up fine by tmux.

This should also happen when you log in a tty.

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* First sources .zshenv * Then sources /etc/zsh/zprofile * Then .zshrc

In the second step, /etc/zsh/zprofile sources /etc/profile, which changes the path back to the default. Might this be the reason why tmux picks .zshrc path changes up correctly, but not .zshenv path changes?

It was reported [1] and documented in the wiki [2]. zprofile sources /etc/profile, which replaces your $PATH ignoring already existing settings. What I did was modify /etc/profile to include the value of PATH in the newly created variable: PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31873 [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zsh#Configuration_files

I had read the wiki, but before my path woes, and failed to put two and two together. Thanks for the info. If I may ask, what's the rationale for overwriting the path? Cheers, Manolo