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 = '.,' .
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
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