On 2019-03-26, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Di, 26 Mär 2019, Gary Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On 2019-03-26, Charles Cooper wrote:
> > > > ... neither of the following work:
> > > > :echo expand("$PATH")
> > >   This works for me now as it has in the past, using a gvim compiled with 
> > > MSVC.  Could there be a difference if compiled with gcc?
> > 
> > This works for me, too, using the latest Windows gvim that I had on
> > hand, 8.1.1006, installed from
> > https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases and run as
> > 
> >     gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE
> > 
> > on a Windows 10 system.
> 
> I just installed a clean vim from
> https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases/tag/v8.1.1052 (using 
> the 64 bit installer).

I just installed that version from your URL above and ran the
64-bit installer.  Tested using the gvim instance that pops up when
you tell the installer to show the README.txt.  Same results:
echo expand("$PATH") works fine.  Also tried single-quotes.

> running
> 
> gvim.exe --clean -c ":echo expand('$PATH')" returns just '$PATH'
> 
> could that be any shell settings?
> 
> ,----
> |   shell=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
> |   shellcmdflag=/c
> |   shellpipe=>%s 2>&1
> |   shellquote=
> |   shellredir=>%s 2>&1
> | noshellslash
> |   shelltemp
> |     Last set from c:\Program Files\Vim\vim81\defaults.vim line 26
> `----

I don't see any difference between those settings and mine.

Is a puzzlement.

Regards,
Gary

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