$PATH in Vim doesn't match Terminal

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Published on 2009-08-28T13:56:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 6:23 UTC
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I'm using MacVim and when I don't launch it from the Terminal (mvim) its $PATH does not include what I have set in my .bash_profile. It only seems to have the default values, /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin.

I'm running OS X 10.5.8. Even if I could set it manually in my .vimrc that would be okay, though I would prefer it to pull from the same place as Terminal. I've tried following what one site suggested, adding let $PATH += /blah/foo:/bar/etc to no avail.

Edit/Solution: See my answer below. MacVim has an option to fix this.

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