That is, unfortunately, only available on linux, whereas I am looking for a more generic solution.
I noticed that vim has a v:progname variable, which unfortunately only displays the executable, without the path. Any way to expand that into the full path? On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:35:18 PM UTC+2, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-03-12, Viktor Kojouharov wrote: > > > I was hoping using the python sys.argv would return the vim path > > > as the first item, but its filled with garbage? Is there any way > > > to get it, either from a built-in viml function or from the python > > > interface? > > > > I don't know about Windows, but on Linux you can get it from either > > of these. > > > > substitute(system('readlink /proc/$PPID/exe'), '\n$', '', '') > > substitute(system('ls -l /proc/$PPID/exe'), '^.*-> \(.*\)\n$', '\1', '') > > > > HTH, > > Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.