Christian wrote:
> having read :h expand-env, I suspected that this also works on Windows,
> however it does not seem to be the case:
>
> :echo $PATH
> " This correctly shows the path, but neither of the following work:
> :echo expand("$PATH")
> :echo expand("%PATH%")
>
> My use case is to have cmd.exe return a pseudo random number by using
> %random%. However it looks like vim on windows cannot expand environment
> variables.
expand() wasn't made for expanding environment variables. Why not use
$PATH directly?
Not sure if $random works, might be something built into cmd.exe. You
could try using system('echo %random%'), but it's likely slower.
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