On 24/04/09 10:54, dr-dr xp wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Dennis Benzinger
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> Am 23.04.2009 12:39, Manfred Lotz schrieb:
> > Dennis Benzinger wrote:
> >> Am 23.04.2009 10:21, Manfred Lotz schrieb:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> When testing scripts (some have many files) I would like to put
> them in
> >>> a directory tree different to ~/.vim to avoid cluttering the
> ~/.vim tree.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> How can I expand the runtimepath variable in .vimrc?
> >>
> >> Use the excellent online help and read :help 'runtimepath'.
> There is an
> >> example.
> >>
> >
> > I had read it and tried to prepend ~/.vimtest like this
> > set runtimepath=~/.vimtest,$VIMRUNTIME
> >
> > in my ~/.vimrc.
> >
> > However, it seemed that $VIMRUNTIME is not the same as runtimepath.
> >
> > I couldn't find out how to specify runtimepath instead of
> $VIMRUNTIME in
> > above statement.
> >
> > set runtimepath=~/.vimtest,runtimepath
> > didn't do it.
>
> Ah, sorry, that's your problem.
>
> You can append something to runtimepath by using
>
> set runtimepath+=bla
>
> or if you have to add it to the front you can use
>
> exec "set rtp=bla," . &rtp
>
>
> just use this:
>
> let &rtp = "somewhere".&rtp
>
> to avoid using ugly execute statement
>
>
>
> or if you want to add something somewhere in the middle then you'll have
> to query the current value with &rtp, use split() to get the individual
> paths as a list, modify the list, use join() to turn it into a comma
> separated string and finally set it by assigning to &rtp.
>
>
> HTH,
> Dennis Benzinger
Actually, it's even simpler than that:
:set rtp^=~/.vimtest
will append "~/.vimtest" in front of the 'runtimepath' option, also
adding a comma if the value wasn't empty.
See
:help :set^=
Best regards,
Tony.
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