diff --git a/share/functions/_.fish b/share/functions/_.fish
index 8983d66e6..66dd031e1 100644
--- a/share/functions/_.fish
+++ b/share/functions/_.fish
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Alias for gettext (or a fallback if gettext isn't installed)
 #
 
-set -l path (which $i ^/dev/null)
+set -l path (which gettext ^/dev/null)
 if test -x (echo $path)
 	function _ --description "Alias for the gettext command"
 		gettext fish $argv