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Chaning MacVim's default shell?

I currently have my default shell set to zsh in terminal. However, upon execution !echo $SHELL in MacVim, it returns /bin/bash, which is obviously the shell that I don't want. How can I set zsh as my default in MacVim?

Note: I've attempted to :set shell=/bin/zsh with no luck.

Solution

  • Although !echo $SHELL may be wrong, :set shell=/bin/zsh does seem to work.

    Like you, I also get /bin/bash for !echo $SHELL. But if I try to run a non-existent command:

    :!blah
zsh:1: command not found: blah

shell returned 127

    So it looks like the setting works, and commands will be executed in the right shell.