Proper setup with ZSH?

[9mm]

I found this comment: #950 (comment)

I've been trying to fix this for like 3 hours now and I am losing my mind. I realize this really has nothing to do with Neovide... moreso ZSH. Thats why I put it in discussions as I dont really expect much.

It started when I realized all the language providers were picking up the wrong version (system ruby) inside neovide, but it worked in neovim.

I then found that the issue is because of my $PATH.

It's hard to explain what the issue is as I've tried so many things, which have lots of... side effects to the explanation, but the simple answer is... I'm ultimately trying to figure out why /usr/bin is appearing at the front of my path, which is causing Neovide to read all the wrong binaries. Neovim actually gets the correct binaries.

I'm also trying to do this in a way thats the proper way, instead of just loading the path tons of duplicate times just to get it working.

There is a secondary issue where .zprofile is loaded twice which is super confusing.

.zprofile

export PATH="/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZPROFILE:$PATH"
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

The eval line returns this:

export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="/opt/homebrew";
export HOMEBREW_CELLAR="/opt/homebrew/Cellar";
export HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY="/opt/homebrew";
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin${PATH+:$PATH}";
export MANPATH="/opt/homebrew/share/man${MANPATH+:$MANPATH}:";
export INFOPATH="/opt/homebrew/share/info:${INFOPATH:-}";

.zshenv

export PATH="/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZENV:$PATH"

.zshrc

I actually don't have anything in here except a bunch of exports (im NOT modifying the path except for language specific stuff). i was going to move them per @fredizzimo advice in the link above until i realized somehow neovide IS loading them even though theyre inside .zshrc. Heres a few lines just so you can see them appear below:

# Postgres
export PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/16/bin:$PATH"

# Ruby
eval "$(rbenv init - zsh)"

# Go
export GOPATH="$HOME/.go"
export PATH="$GOPATH/bin:$PATH"

EXPECTED OUTPUT for $PATH (Neovim running in terminal)

/Users/zesty/.local/share/nvim/mason/bin:
/Users/zesty/Library/pnpm:
/Users/zesty/.go/bin:
/Users/zesty/.rbenv/shims:
/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/16/bin:
/Users/zesty/.local/bin:
/Users/zesty/.zsh/bin:
/opt/homebrew/bin:
/opt/homebrew/sbin:
/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZPROFILE:
/usr/local/bin:
/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:
/usr/bin:
/bin:
/usr/sbin:
/sbin:
/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:
/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:
/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:
/Applications/Little Snitch.app/Contents/Components:
/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZENVAFTER:
/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZENV:
/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/Resources/utilities:
/Users/zesty/go/bin

ACTUAL OUTPUT FOR $PATH (Neovide echo $PATH command)

/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZENV:
/Users/zesty/.local/share/nvim/mason/bin:
/opt/homebrew/bin:
/opt/homebrew/sbin:
/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZPROFILE:
/usr/local/bin:
/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:
/usr/bin:
/bin:
/usr/sbin:
/sbin:
/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:
/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:
/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:
/Applications/Little Snitch.app/Contents/Components:
/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZENV:
/Users/zesty/Library/pnpm:
/Users/zesty/.go/bin:
/Users/zesty/.rbenv/shims:
/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/16/bin:
/Users/zesty/.local/bin:
/Users/zesty/.zsh/bin:
/opt/homebrew/bin:
/opt/homebrew/sbin:
/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZPROFILE:
/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/Resources/utilities:
/Users/zesty/go/bin

[9mm]

Ugh, I realize echo $PATH is different than !echo $PATH now...

This is too confusing to solve so I decided to just prepend my paths in .zshenv and be done with it. Then i realize this DOES show the correct path:

!echo $PATH

however this does NOT (/usr/bin is still at the front of the list).. fuuuuuuu

echo $PATH

[9mm]

    let user = env::var("USER").unwrap_or_explained_panic("USER environment variable not found");
    let shell = env::var("SHELL").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/bin/zsh".to_string());

    let args = match shlex::try_join(args.iter().map(|s| (*s) as &str)) {
        Ok(args) => args,
        Err(_) => panic!("Failed to join arguments"),
    };

    let exec = format!("exec -a -{} {}", command, args);

    let cmd_path = "/usr/bin/login";

    let cmd_args = vec!["-flp", &user, &shell, "-c", &exec];

Can you help me see what im missing? I didnt copy alacritty exact as I see it seems they're passing in different arguments and stuff. I just changed mostly the -flp command and the format! macro contents

ERROR: Unexpected output from neovim binary:
	/opt/homebrew/bin/nvim -v
stdout:
stderr: zsh:1: exec requires a command to execute

[fredizzimo]

let exec = format!("exec -a -{} {}", command, args); this line needs the shell name as the first argument (just the name) for example zsh while I think the second argument should be something like /usr/bin/zsh -c nvim -v

[9mm]

like this? now it compiles but when it launches, nothing actually opens. Sorry to be pain

i removed the format and stuff just for clear visibility into debugging

    let exec = "exec -a -zsh /bin/zsh -c /opt/homebrew/bin/nvim -v";

    let cmd_args = vec!["-flp", &user, &shell, "-c", &exec];

[fredizzimo]

I think that is correct but nvim will be called a second time with different arguments.

[nkarl]

You can do following:

if vim.g.neovide then
  local home = vim.env.HOME
  vim.env.PATH =
    home .. '/path/foo:' ..
    home .. '/path/bar:' .. vim.env.PATH
end

This is only a quick fix though. You will have to append extra paths when you have more.