On Mo, 03 Aug 2020, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> Hello, all > > How are the Vim executables regitered on Windows so that > they are always available from the command prompt even > though no environment variable seems to contain their path? On > my PC, for example, Vim's executables are installed at > > C:\Program Files\Vim\vim80 > > but > > set | grep vim > > does show anything. How does Windows locate vim.exe, > gvim.exe when I invoke them from the command line? This is done using the %PATH% environment variable, see e.g. the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable) Best, Christian -- Toni fällt in den See wird aber gerettet. Der Retter fragt ihn: "Warum bist du denn nicht geschwommen?" Toni: "Aber da steht doch ein Schild - Schwimmen Verboten!" -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20200803121257.GD4701%40256bit.org.
