Macos default paths prepend my defined paths in vim

Question

I am trying to call some shell command from vim with like :!ls command. But unfortunately there are some default PATHS that prepends PATHs defined in the original shell. Here is the echo $PATH output in the original shell:

/usr/local/heroku/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/bin:/Users/bogdan/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/git/1.7.12.2/libexec/git-core:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/bin

and shell called within vim:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@devauc/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/bin:/Users/bogdan/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/git/1.7.12.2/libexec/git-core:/Users/bogdan/.rvm/bin

Why they appeared right there? How can I prevent that and make vim shell has original PATH variable.

Answer 1

See this answer of mine or this one with a nice table to similar questions. You should check the file in which you setup your custom $PATH. Whether it's ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc or some other file and the method of invocation of the shell have their role in this.

For reference, I have only one line in my ~/.bashrc:

source ~/.profile

(with all my settings going into ~/.profile) and this line in my ~/.vimrc:

set shell=bash\ -i

The whole thing is not very pretty but it's simple and it works.