Hi, Dan Frumin skribis: > Some background on this patch: > Right now whenever I do any Guix operation that requires me to modify > environment variables (e.g. installing a Guile library requires me to > update $GUILE_LOAD_PATH afterwards), Guix helpful tells me what > commands I have to run to update the variables. But see . :-) > However, those commands are currently in bash/POSIX(?) format `export > VAR=VALUE`. I've modified the `environment-variable-definition` > function to support the syntax for Fish shell as well. I don't know if > this method of looking at the $SHELL variable is sound, but it works > on my machine. “export VAR=VALUE” is actually Bash-specific. The POSIX way to do it is: VAR=VALUE; export VAR Would that work with Fish? If it does, we might just as well take that route as it will also cater to other POSIX-compatible shells. If not, your patch sounds like the right way. Thanks, Ludo’.