Sublime Text 3 instructions aren't sufficient on Linux

[kvark]

Strictly following https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/tree/master/docs/user#sublime-text-3 on Linux, I'm not getting it to work: it simply fails to run ra_lsp_server (or rustup, or anything) because it's not in $PATH for sublime.

What I tried:

• having ~/.profile setting the $PATH
• forcing environment for Rust build system as described on SO
• modifying the .desktop file used to launch ST3 to have the environment

In the end, wasn't able to get it to work yet. It only works when launched from the console.
Sorry if this is off-topic (arguably more of a ST3 issue than rust-analyzer). I think instructions should make the path clear.

[matklad]

Yeah, difference in $PATH between shell and DE on linux is a reoccurring problem... The worst thing is that, at least as far as I know, there's now single standard place to define PATH which works for both!

I don't think we can provide any better diagnostics for this problem on our side, but the docs need clarification

[matklad]

having ~/.profile setting the $PATH

I think ~/.profile is what is executed by non-graphical shell and ~/.xprofile is executed by graphical login manager. I think I had some success in the past by adding source ./.profile line to my ~/.xprofile

[lnicola]

You can also try putting PATH DEFAULT=${PATH}:@{HOME}/.cargo/bin in ~/.pam_environment.

[kvark]

Thank you for the suggestions!

• ~/.xprofile didn't work for me
• haven't tried the PAM stuff because it appears that it's not shipped with Solus

What did work in the end though is creating /etc/profile.d/cargo.sh with this line:

export PATH=$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH

[lnicola]

Nb. for anyone from the future there's one issue with the .pam_environment approach. On some distros (Arch?), it prevents /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin from being added to PATH, so non-interactive ssh and scp stop working.

This seems to work, with some caveats about what you expect to find in PATH:

PATH DEFAULT=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:@{HOME}/.cargo/bin:@{HOME}/.local/bin