how to set environment variables in fish shell

Question

Can someone please tell me what\'s the correct way to set a bunch of environment variables in the fish shell?

In my .config/fish/config.fish file, I have a function to s

Answer 1

Environment Variables in Fish

I would like to add that, while @JosEduSol's answer is not incorrect and does help solve the OP problem, -g is only setting the scope to be global, while -x is causing the specified environment variable to be exported to child processes.

The reason the above fails, is because @cfpete is setting the env vars inside a function and the default scope will be local to that function.