Fzf: $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND not respected in fish shell

[jberglinds]

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I'm unable to get fzf to respect $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND when using fish.
In my fish config, I set FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND to a ripgrep-command for listing files. When I run fzf either using fzf or with a keybinding it lists everything as usual, ignoring the variable.
Echoing the variable shows that it has been set.
Running the ripgrep-command manually and piping it to fzf works.

Everything works as expected in bash.

Any pointers for how one would achieve this? Or is it an actal bug?

[junegunn]

Works for me just fine

jg@junegunn /p/tmp> env FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='echo foo' fzf --filter foo
foo
jg@junegunn /p/tmp> env FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='echo bar' fzf --filter foo
jg@junegunn /p/tmp>

Make sure to export the variable (-x).

[jberglinds]

Yep, -x did it 😓
You have no idea for how long I've tried to understand/fix this.
Thank you so much for this and for fzf!

[jkryanchou]

it does not work through the shortcut such like ctrl + t