setting path in fig doesn't recognize $HOME

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When you add items to the path in fig using $HOME, apps cannot be found. Change it to ~ and it works. Its like fig doesn't replace $HOME correctly.

so this doesn't work

but this does:

Environment

## Fig details:
  - Fig version: Version 1.0.58 (B462) [Beta] [Workman-Dead]
  - Bundle path: /Applications/Fig.app
  - Autocomplete: true
  - Settings.json: true
  - Accessibility: true
  - Number of specs: 0
  - Symlinked dotfiles: true
  - Only insert on tab: false
  - Keybindings path:
  - Installation Script: true
  - PseudoTerminal Path: /Users/matt/.asdf/shims:/opt/homebrew/opt/asdf/libexec/bin:/Users/matt/.local/bin:/Users/matt/.fig/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/go/bin:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS:/opt/homebrew/bin:/Users/matt/.krew/bin:/Users/matt/bin
  - SecureKeyboardInput: false
  - SecureKeyboardProcess: <none>
## Hardware Info:
  - Model Name: MacBook Pro
  - Model Identifier: MacBookPro18,2
  - Chip: Apple M1 Max
  - Cores: 10 (8 performance and 2 efficiency)
  - Memory: 64 GB
## OS Info:
  - macOS 12.4.0 (21F79)
## Environment:
  - User Shell: /opt/homebrew/bin/fish
  - Current Directory: /Users/matt/.config/fish
  - CLI Installed: true
  - Executable Location: /opt/homebrew/bin/fig
  - Current Window ID: 6460/% (com.googlecode.iterm2)
  - Active Process: fish (3326) - /dev/ttys002
  - Installed via Brew: true
  - Environment Variables:
    - FIG_TERM=1
    - TERM_SESSION_ID=w0t0p0:261FF261-F226-435B-9D8D-0710E3E786CE
    - FIG_TERM_VERSION=4.4.0
    - TERM=xterm-256color
    - FIG_INTEGRATION_VERSION=8
    - FIG_PID=3326
    - PATH=/Users/matt/.asdf/shims:/opt/homebrew/opt/asdf/libexec/bin:$HOME/bin:$HOME/.krew/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/Users/matt/.local/bin:/Users/matt/.fig/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/go/bin:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS
## Integrations:
  - SSH: false
  - TMUX: false
  - iTerm: installed!
  - Hyper: application is not present.
  - Visual Studio Code: installed!
  - Docker: true

[chungweileong94]

It's not $HOME that doesn't work in PATH, the actual problem is that we can't use the environment variable in PATH. For now, the only workaround that I found is to use script block instead.

[chungweileong94]

After some digging, it was because fig will add the quote to the PATH, like PATH=$PATH:'$HOME/bin', which will cause the ENV to be ignored.

[cojoj]

Do you have any plans to implement this? I can't see the quotes around the PATH, but it seems like fig simply adds anything in the field as a string without executing it. I've tried calling it with eval or I $(), but still... It's treated as a string. Not a dealbreaker, but it'd be nice to have more flexibility. Right now, even ~ doesn't work. It has to be an absolute path 😢

[clo4]

Fixed now! This was one of my biggest annoyances too. Should just work "as expected", including leading ~, but if there are any issues please let me know and I'll fix

This took so long to implement because there is a shocking number of edge cases to handle.