On Nov 21, 5:36 pm, "John Beckett" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben Fritz wrote: > >> The wiki is correct. > >> Vim does NOT use %USERPROFILE% or %ProgramFiles%. > > > Sorry, John. Not quite true. > > > Although I don't think Vim uses USERPROFILE, it *does* use > > the program files directory by default. If a _vimrc is not > > found in $HOME, Vim looks it the $VIM directory, which > > defaults to %ProgramFiles%\Vim (or whereever you install). > > > But the OP seems to not realize that Vim builds $HOME, if it > > does not exist, as %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%. > > > USERPROFILE is mentioned in the todo list as a good fallback > > for %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% but I don't think that's implemented > > yet. > > It is true. As you hint above, Vim does not use > %ProgramFiles% (and it certainly does not use %USERPROFILE%). > Instead, it's the directory containing the Vim executable that > may be used to construct $VIM. It's only a coincidence if that > happens to match ProgramFiles. >
Fair enough, I missed the subtle distinction. I suppose what I meant was that Vim uses the *directory* pointed to by %ProgramFiles% in a default installation, but I accidentally *said* that Vim uses the %ProgramFiles% enviornment variable. You are correct that this is not the case. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
