i'm an idiot.

for some reason i forgot i could override system-wide binaries because the
path is expanded ltr

code is the enemy
death to code

.bashrc

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Path:
-PATH=~/bin:~/sw/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
+PATH=~/firefox:~/bin:~/sw/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
 
 # don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
 export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ source ~/.aliases
 
 # ideally we want to use this prompt...
 #
-# user@host hh:mm:ss cwd
-# $ 
-# 
+# user@host hh:mm:ss cwd (git branch) $
+#
 # in xterms, we also set the window title to cwd.
 
 # ansi color escape sequences

.zshrc

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ DEBEMAIL="bbearnes@gmail.com"
 DEBFULLNAME="Brennen Bearnes"
 export DEBEMAIL DEBFULLNAME
 
-export PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/:~/bin/
+export PATH=~/firefox:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/:~/bin/:$PATH
 
 # reset the prompt on every command to get that parse_git_branch
 # function to run.  might be a better way to do this, but whatever

bin/firefox-fromselection

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # clip2firefox - open selected text as firefox address
-firefox-wrapper "$(xclip -out)"
+firefox "$(xclip -out)"

bin/firefox-wrapper

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# A wrapper for starting the Firefox in my home directory.
-
-cd ~/firefox
-
-# $@ should pass along all arguments received - used for at least firefox-fromselection:
-./firefox "$@"