Re: set from environment variable

2012-05-09 Thread Paul
On Wednesday, 09 May, 2012 at 17:34:48 BST, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: You're using :let syntax (which takes a VimL expression) for a :set (which is a command (so, no VimL, no spaces between 'path', '=', etc.)). Either of the following should work: set path=.,$SOMEVAR/** or let &path = '.,' .

Re: set from environment variable

2012-05-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 9 May 2012, Paul wrote: In vimrc, I want to set the path from an environment variable, eg.: set path = '.,' . $SOMEVAR . '/**' So if $SOMEVAR was /foo/bar, I want vim's path to be '.,/foo/bar/**'. You're using :let syntax (which takes a VimL expression) for a :set (which is a comman

set from environment variable

2012-05-09 Thread Paul
In vimrc, I want to set the path from an environment variable, eg.: set path = '.,' . $SOMEVAR . '/**' So if $SOMEVAR was /foo/bar, I want vim's path to be '.,/foo/bar/**'. I've tried expand("$SOMEVAR"), tried 'let'ing the path instead of 'set'ing it, but I'm just missing the exact syntax for