Using vim as an external tool in intellij idea

Question

I want to use vim editor as an external tool in intellij idea. I mapped a Ctrl-U combination to opening the current file with vim . Then I want to use the fugitive plugin, which is a wrapper over git and uses the git binary. But the vim opened from idea cannot locate the git binary. When I start the vim from shell, it can locate the vim binary.

/bin/bash: git: command not found

Answer 1

When launched from the IDE, vim doesn't seem to inherit the environment variables (like PATH ) that you set in your ~/*rc . You could try toprepend the correct PATH to your command. Something like:

PATH=/path/to/git:$PATH /usr/bin/gvim