Documentation: `export` works fine

[guettli]

Documentation: `export` works fine

[krobelus]

.envrc is sourced using /bin/sh, not fish. It looks like it does because direnv computes a diff of the environment and applies that to the host shell

[guettli]

Maybe, but export works, and this is great. Otherwise I would not be able to use Fish.

❯ echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/fish

❯ export FOO=abc-$HOME

❯ echo $FOO
abc-/home/guettli

# checking that the env var exists in sub processes:
❯ bash

❯ echo $FOO
abc-/home/guettli

Just ignore my comment about direnv. I think adding the support for export to the docs makes sense.

If you disagree, not big problem, just close this issue. I just wanted to you to know what I think.

[faho]

export foo=bar works because fish ships a compatibility function.

That has a few limitations, and in general we want to emphasize set, because that's easier to learn because it has all the variable manipulation in one place.

I do not believe we want to make export more prominent in the documentation.