Peter Whittaker wrote:
> Folks, posting here to gauge interest before adding an issue on
> GitHub: What interest is there in adding a command line option that
> causes vim to return the current value of VIMRUNTIME?
>
> The use case is to find macros, etc., dynamically, e.g., in one's
> .bashrc, et al, with minimum hardcoding. Example: I have the following
> lines in one of my BASH dotfiles (lines broken and \ added for
> readability):
>
> # if available, use a better less - warning, this is gross but unavoidable
> vimrntm=$(vim --not-a-term -T dumb --cmd 'echo $VIMRUNTIME' --cmd quit | \
> tr -d '\n\r' |sed -E 's,[^/]+,,')
> vimless=${vimrntm}/macros/less.sh
> [[ -x ${vimless} ]] && alias less=${vimless} || { \
> echo; echo You may want to find less.sh manually, using pure less
> for now.; \
> echo; }
>
> What I'd really like is "vimrntm=$(vim --get-vimruntime)", which would
> simply print out an appropriately terminated string containing the
> value, e.g., /usr/share/vim/vim81.
>
> Note that I don't set VIMRUNTIME anywhere, I am simply trying to
> retrieve it in the most efficient way. On the various platforms I work
> on, it may be /usr/share/vim/vim74, ...81, ...82, etc., or absent.
>
> Thoughts?
I think you already found a way that works:
vi --not-a-term -c 'echo $VIMRUNTIME' -c q
Perhaps add "-e" to make it a little faster.
Why would a command line argument be needed that would do the same
thing?
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