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How to use fish shell paths from emacs
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fish.el
(let*
((fish-path (shell-command-to-string "/opt/homebrew/bin/fish -i -c \"echo -n \\$PATH[1]; for val in \\$PATH[2..-1];echo -n \\\":\\$val\\\";end\""))
(full-path (append exec-path (split-string fish-path ":"))))
(setenv "PATH" fish-path)
(setq exec-path full-path))
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yurighensev commented Jul 23, 2021 •
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Thanks for sharing.
Had to tweak it to merge with current exec-path to have it working for me. Probably needed because I'm using spacemacs and it has its own (spacemacs/load-spacemacs-env) loaded beforehand.

  (let*
      ((fish-path (shell-command-to-string "/usr/bin/fish -i -c \"echo -n \\$PATH[1]; for val in \\$PATH[2..-1];echo -n \\\":\\$val\\\";end\""))
       (full-path (append exec-path (split-string fish-path ":"))))
    (setenv "PATH" fish-path)
    (setq exec-path full-path))

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Glad this helped!

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