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On macOS I've set my login shell to bash instead of zsh, which became the default in Catalina (Terminal > Preferences > General > Shells open with: > /bin/bash).
But when I shell escape from vi (from Terminal), the shell command is still run by zsh.
How can I make vi spawn not zsh but rather bash (or at least whatever's in Terminal > Preferences), so a shell escape can run commands defined in ~/.bashrc?
That setting only sets the shell used by Terminal. You need to set your log-in shell with chsh -s /bin/bash to make Bash the default one on any other application.
You can also try set shell=/bin/bash in your .vimrc
set shell=/bin/bash\ -i. (Also \ -l to read ~/.bash_profile.)
May 11 '20 at 18:54
chsh should work. I updated my answer because I forgot the -s flag, maybe that's why it didn't work for you