Best regards, Tony.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 2:31 AM, email from <[email protected]> wrote: > is this complicated directory hard coded into vim. > i would like to put all the files in one directory. You can't. 1) MS-DOS is not supported anymore in recent versions of Vim 2) Vim needs its runtime files in a number of directories, see :help 'runtimepath' Even on MS-DOS, at least on versions which supported hard disks, multiple directories were a standard features of the operating system. > > what are ALL of the environment variables? > > the doc says that the environment both start with > a $ and do not Starting environment variables with a dollar sign is the Unix convention, used inside Vim. On Dos/Windows (but not inside Vim) you bracket environment variables with percent signs, as follows: the PATH environment variable is known by COMMAND.COM on the command line as %PATH% and by Vim as $PATH the HOME envionment variable, if you have one, is known by COMMAND.COM as %HOME% and by Vim as $HOME etc. but when you set an environment variable in COMMAND.COM, you use the bare name. For instance, to set the $VIM directory, you would tell COMMAND.COM set VIM C:\SOME\PATH\TO\MY\VIM\FILES or you would tell Vim :let $VIM = 'C:/SOME/PATH/TO/MY/VIM/FILES' (forward slash separators is another Unix convention). > > ie vim and $vim. which is it. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
