> > I've noticed since switching from Carbon vim to MacVim (a *sweet* turn of events) that my mappings to call LaTeX and friends are failing.  I have, e.g., mapped <C-p> to !pdflatex %.  But it tells me "bash error, pdflatex not found".  That's preposterous since pdflatex is where it always was, and console vim finds it OK.  How can I fix this?  Is there some path setting I can't find?  I tried amending my pdflatex's parent dir to :set path=blah, but that didn't work.

> It'll be because MacVim starts up with a different environment to console Vim
> because it doesn't start from a shell with all its initialisation files and when
> it starts a new shell, it's a non-login shell. I'd just make it start a login
> shell with

> :set shell=/bin/bash\ -l

> (presuming if you do :set shell? you get /bin/bash to start with). That'll
> probably fix it.