PATH is incorrect when using macOS and zsh

[reekystive]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

• VS Code Version:

1.60.0
e7d7e9a9348e6a8cc8c03f877d39cb72e5dfb1ff
arm64

• OS Version:

macOS Big Sur Version 11.5.2 (20G95)

• zsh Version:

zsh 5.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin20.0)
# I'm also using Oh My Zsh

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open Terminal.app and execute echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g'

2. Open Visual Studio Code using code --disable-extensions, open Terminal and execute echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g'

I found this issue because I couldn't use the correct version of vim. In the above screenshots, the path of vim is different.

Related issue: #107169

[jxjj]

I'm also seeing this issue with different $PATHs in VS Code's Terminal and Terminal.app.

Terminal.app:

➜  ~ echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g'
/Users/james/.rbenv/shims
/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@1.1/bin
/Users/james/.rbenv/shims
/Users/james/.deno/bin
/Users/james/.composer/vendor/bin
/Users/james/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.4/bin
/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@1.1/bin
/opt/homebrew/bin
/opt/homebrew/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/Library/Apple/usr/bin

VS Code:

➜  ~ echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g'
/Users/james/.rbenv/shims
/Users/james/.deno/bin
/Users/james/.composer/vendor/bin
/Users/james/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.4/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/Library/Apple/usr/bin
/Users/james/.rbenv/shims
/opt/homebrew/bin
/opt/homebrew/sbin
/Users/james/.deno/bin
/Users/james/.composer/vendor/bin
/Users/james/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.4/bin

My Environment

VS Code version:

1.60.1
83bd43bc519d15e50c4272c6cf5c1479df196a4d
arm64

MacOS

ProductName:    macOS
ProductVersion: 11.6
BuildVersion:   20G165

ZSH version (also using Oh-My-Zsh):

zsh 5.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin20.0)

[meganrogge]

I believe this is already fixed, can you see if you can reproduce in the Insiders build?

[jxjj]

Thanks for looking at this, Megan!

The issue still persists for me this Insider build:

Version: 1.61.0-insider (Universal)
Commit: f66a3e06bcb9f000e5dc0ad0040ff9b32fc75c78
Date: 2021-09-14T05:14:54.400Z
Electron: 13.1.8
Chrome: 91.0.4472.164
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 9.1.269.39-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 20.6.0

[Tyriar]

You can read about why this happens and how to fix here at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-terminal#_why-are-there-duplicate-paths-in-the-terminals-path-environment-variable-andor-why-are-they-reversed

[reekystive]

In short, if you want your PATH in VSCode Terminal to be the same as in macOS Terminal, just add

"terminal.integrated.inheritEnv": false

to your settings.

I tried it and it worked. I can use the correct version of vim in VSCode now.

[reekystive]

You can read about why this happens and how to fix here at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-terminal#_why-are-there-duplicate-paths-in-the-terminals-path-environment-variable-andor-why-are-they-reversed

Thanks!

[reekystive]

Hi! I found that if I open VSCode with the command code, the PATH will still be incorrect. Can this behavior be changed?

[reekystive]

I also found that the PATH in VSCode opened with open -a "Visual Studio Code" in zsh is different from the one opened from Finder.