How to set the vim path to your bash PATH?

Question

I'd like my $PATH to be available to vim when running commands with !. How do I set vim's set path= to my environment variable $PATH?

Answer 1

&path has nothing to do with $PATH.

Also $PATH is set and used. See :echo $PATH.

You should also be able to change its value with :let $PATH = $PATH.':some/path' -- there are a few write only things, $PATH is not one of them IIRC