How to correctly set PATHS for fish shell when both homebrew and fnm install node? about fnm

[kris-anderson]

I think I may have figured this out.

I updated my path setting towards the top of my config.fish file to the following:

set -gx PATH "$HOME/.local/bin" "$PYENV_ROOT/bin" "$HOME/Library/Application\ Support/fnm" /opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/bin /opt/homebrew/sbin /opt/homebrew/bin $PATH

In the above path command, I removed the path of "$FNM_MULTISHELL_PATH/bin" that I was setting previously

I then deleted my $HOME/.config/fish/conf.d/fnm.fish file.

The fnm automatic install script creates the above file, but if I do that, it puts the path to fnm after my homebrew paths. So to get around that, I deleted the above file, and I put the source call for fnm towards the bottom of my config.fish file:

# fnm
/opt/homebrew/bin/fnm env --use-on-cd | source

# Pyenv
pyenv init - | source

# Starship prompt
starship init fish | source

With the above setup, I now have the path for fnm set to be before the path for Homebrew, and it's only showing up once in my echo $PATH:

/Users/kris/.pyenv/shims /Users/kris/Library/Caches/fnm_multishells/23714_1707382543780/bin /Users/kris/.local/bin /Users/kris/.pyenv/bin /Users/kris/Library/Application\ Support/fnm /opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/bin /opt/homebrew/sbin /opt/homebrew/bin /usr/local/bin /System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Public /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/MacOS

I'm open to feedback on if there's a better way to do this. But if not, we can close this issue and hopefully the above is helpful for anyone else with both fnm and homebrew installing node, and using fish as their shell.