On 17Feb2021 22:45, vim_use wrote:
>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
You could see if you can use ~/ instead of $HOME/
Happy to know you found what caused your problem. Have fun with Vim, and
don't forget to upgrade to some not-too-old version of Vim 8.2, because Vim
8.0 is _still_ out of date.
Best regards,
Tony.
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 4:36 PM tom wrote:
> Tony you are correct. When I set this
> [image: image
Tony you are correct. When I set this
[image: image.png]
Then my old vimrc started working again.
I had had this variable set for years. its also set in my bashrc. When I
installed Vim 7.22 some years ago I wrote a wrapper batch file to run vim
inside a bash shell. Then I change the association fo
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 8:03 AM tom wrote:
>
> I was working in vim and tried to sort something. The sort didn't work as I
> expected.
>
> I thought I would upgrade to version 8.0 in the hopes that would fix it. The
> upgrade gave me a new problem.
Upgrade "to" Vim 8.0? That's rather behind the
-- Original Message --
From: joha...@nacs.net
To: vim_use@googlegroups.com
Cc: v...@vim.org
Sent: Wednesday, 17 Feb, 2021 At 18:00
Subject: Re: Upgrade to recent version broke vimrc -- doesnt recognize
unix style environmental variables
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:47:09AM -0600, tom
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:47:09AM -0600, tom wrote:
I was working in vim and tried to sort something. The sort didn't work as I
expected.
I thought I would upgrade to version 8.0 in the hopes that would fix it.
The upgrade gave me a new problem.
in my vimrc there was the line
set backupdir=$H
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 dre
