Re: Windows, 'path', and "~"/$HOME

2006-07-15 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
I figured it might be worthwhile for me to post my results for posterity, now that I've whittled out a comfortable setup, in light of how non-trivial and full of pitfalls I found it. Hopefully this may be of use to another hapless soul on WinXP (or, for that matter, for myself, should the unthink

Re: Windows, 'path', and "~"/$HOME

2006-06-27 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Maciej Kalisiak wrote: Thanks for a meaty reply Tony, plenty for me to read up on. Just one minor related issue: what is the convention of handling "~" in Vim under Windows? The problem is that under WinXP, when I use $HOME in Vim, it gets translated to "~" (i.e., the Unix convention for home d

Re: Windows, 'path', and "~"/$HOME

2006-06-27 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
Thanks for a meaty reply Tony, plenty for me to read up on. Just one minor related issue: what is the convention of handling "~" in Vim under Windows? The problem is that under WinXP, when I use $HOME in Vim, it gets translated to "~" (i.e., the Unix convention for home directory), rather than t

Re: Windows, 'path', and "~"/$HOME

2006-06-27 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Maciej Kalisiak wrote: I'm under Windows XP, and I'm having a devil of a time trying to set 'path' to a bunch of directories in my home directory. My $HOME (and thus presumably "~") point at c:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Home. Doing something like set path=$HOME/src does not work

Windows, 'path', and "~"/$HOME

2006-06-26 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
I'm under Windows XP, and I'm having a devil of a time trying to set 'path' to a bunch of directories in my home directory. My $HOME (and thus presumably "~") point at c:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Home. Doing something like set path=$HOME/src does not work (e.g., ":find" does not