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From: joha...@nacs.net
To: vim_use@googlegroups.com
Cc: v...@vim.org
Sent: Wednesday, 17 Feb, 2021 At 18:00
Subject: Re: Upgrade to recent version broke vimrc -- doesnt recognize
unix style environmental variables
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:47:09AM -0600, tom wrote:
I was working in vim and tried to sort something. The sort didn't work
as I
expected.
I thought I would upgrade to version 8.0 in the hopes that would fix it.
The upgrade gave me a new problem.
in my vimrc there was the line
set backupdir=$HOME/vim/backup
This no longer works and yields the dreaded "E303: Unable to open swap
file"
I fixed it this way
set backupdir=c:\\Users\\myuser\\Documents\\home\\vim\\backup,c:\\TMP
I would try running the following as an ex command:
:echo $HOME
It might be that Vim does not see a HOME environment variable on
Windows.
Hi
it seems the equivalent Windows environment variable is HOMEPATH
Chris Willis
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