Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Where is that %HOMEDRIVE%HOMEPATH% coming from?
AFAIK %HOMEPATH% is optional, when not defined "\" is to be used.
That's at least how $HOME is expanded. Oh wait, that's in the
installer. In Vim itself %HOMEPATH% must be defined for $HOME to work.
But %HOMEPATH% should be defined in the environment.
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AFAIK, they are standard variables in Windows 7. By default,
they are combined for compatibility to make 'HOME'.
I think the reason is that this way one can split off the drive
as separate from the PATH and the drive could be on a NETWORK or
a NEW hard disk -- making it easier to move users around.
HOMEPATH is defined. HOMEDRIVE in my case is C:
and HOMEPATH="\Users\lindaw", so "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%"=
"C:\Users\lindaw". Which, when I print out my environment, is also
what "HOME" is equal to.
As a workaround, I just set HOME, manually, in my
user-environment, to override the default value -- but something
to be aware of -- that it *appears* that %HOME% can expand into
2 concatenated env-vars. I don't know how far they can nest, but
presumably any loop would cause immediate terminate (though knowing
windows, it might cause an infinite loop swallowing up all of
memory...:-)). Ooops. Shouldn't have mentioned that...
-linda
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