Clangd not found in coc-clangd but found in $PATH

Coc-clangd doesn’t detect my clangd binary installed with homebrew at /usr/local/Cellar/llvm/10.0.0_3/bin/clangd that I symlinked to ~/.local/bin/clangd and I added ~/.local/bin/ to my $PATH. I can run clangd from inside neovim as :!clangd without a problem but coc-clangd can’t detect it without hardcoding the path in coc-settings.json with "clangd.path": "/usr/local/opt/llvm/10.0.0_3/bin/clangd". If I symlink the binary to /usr/local/bin instead it just works.

I would like to avoid hardcoding the path to coc-settings.json since it wouldn’t be portable to my Linux computer. So my question is: where does coc-clangd search for clangd and why is it not using my $PATH?

[sam-mccall]

You’ve put “~/.local/bin” on your path instead of “/Users/<MY_USERNAME>/.local/bin”. This is nonstandard - PATH should contain real paths. Bash supports it as an extension (on my system, when invoked as bash but not when invoked as sh) but not all tools do. In particular the npm-which library used by coc to find the binary doesn’t support this.

You can fix this by unquoting the ~ so the shell will expand it:

 [[ ":$PATH:" != *:~/.local/bin/:* ]] && PATH=~/.local/bin/:"${PATH}"

[renyddd]

ln -s /usr/local/bin/clangd /$HOME/.config/coc/extensions/coc-clangd-data/install/10.0.0/clangd_10.0.0/bin/clangd