On 2020-06-15, Peter Whittaker wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 1:36 PM Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote:
> > Peter Whittaker wrote:
> >
> > > vimrntm=$(vim --not-a-term -T dumb --cmd 'echo $VIMRUNTIME' --cmd quit | \
> > > tr -d '\n\r' |sed -E 's,[^/]+,,')
> > >
> > > What I'd really like is "vimrntm=$(vim --get-vimruntime)"
> >
> > I think you already found a way that works:
> > vi --not-a-term -c 'echo $VIMRUNTIME' -c q
> >
> > Why would a command line argument be needed that would do the same
> > thing?
>
> It's not exactly doing the same thing: The existing capability
> requires post-processing to remove extraneous characters, which isn't
> surprising, since those characters aren't extraneous for vim's default
> behaviour, which is managing a graphical display. Based on a 10+ year
> old example I found online, I hacked together a double pipeline of tr
> and sed to remove those characters, but that's definitely ugly, and it
> also feels fragile: I'm hardcoding in knowledge of what those
> characters are; it works everywhere I need it to right now, but it
> feels iffy.
I just threw this together and saw no extraneous characters.
$ vim -u NONE -es -c '!echo $VIMRUNTIME' -c q
Regards,
Gary
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