When building from source, Helix won't add itself to path

[itslikeyy]

Summary

When building from source, Helix won't add itself to path, so trying to run hx will return an error; user needs to run export PATH=/home/$USER/src/helix/target/release:$PATH

We can either add an entry to the wiki about this or make cargo to update the path

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. build helix from source according to the instructions on the wiki
2. ran hx

I expected this to happen: Helix opening itself

Instead, this happened: hx: Command not found

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

Log is empty

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

kitty

Installation Method

Source

Helix Version

24.07-105-g0a4432b1

[pascalkuthe]

Read the build from source documentation carefully. It instructs using cargo install --locked. The latter command copies the executable into the cargo bin directory which is part of the path. Don't use cargo build. Build commands never modify the environment only install commands so. That has always been how build tools work and why we don't point at using cargo build in the documentation