Change `$PATH` inside vim

Author

Dheepak Krishnamurthy

Published

September 19, 2015

Keywords

neovim, vim, osx, change path, set path,

Save the following script in /usr/local/bin/cpvim

#!/bin/zsh
source ~/.zshrc > /dev/null 2>&1
PATH=$VIM_PATH
exec nvim "$@"

Add the following to your .zshrc

alias vim=/usr/local/bin/cpvim

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Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{krishnamurthy2015,
  author = {Krishnamurthy, Dheepak},
  title = {Change {`\$PATH`} Inside Vim},
  date = {2015-09-19},
  url = {https://kdheepak.com/blog/change-path-inside-vim},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

D. Krishnamurthy, “Change `$PATH` inside vim,” Sep. 19, 2015. https://kdheepak.com/blog/change-path-inside-vim.