Set a Shell in ViM
- author:: Nathan Acks
If the user shell is set to something non-standard in /etc/passwd, Vi and ViM may not be able to shell out with :shell
or execute shell commands with !
. This is because these apps are attempting to execute $SHELL
(in the case of :shell
) or $SHELL -c $COMMAND
(in the case of !
).
Fortunately, Vi and ViM can be set to override the default $SHELL using :set shell=/bin/bash
.
(Exotic shells in /etc/passwd can also cause commands executed via ssh to fail for the same reason.)