Hi,
Steven Woody wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jürgen Krämer <jottka...@googlemail.com > <mailto:jottka...@googlemail.com>> wrote: > >> :let &path = &path . substitute($VARIABLE, ' ', '\\\ ', 'g') note that I probably forgot a ',' between &path and substitute and that there is one unnecessesary backslash, so this should really be :let &path = &path . ',' . substitute($VARIABLE, ' ', '\\ ', 'g') > This works!! Thanks. But I've not quite understand : > 1. why use let instead of 'set'? what's the difference? Because the spaces in $VARIABLE need to be escaped. This is not automatically done with set path+=$VARIABLE If you append the directory directly you have to write set path+=C:\Directory\\\ with\\\ spaces\sub\\\ directory because for compatibility reasons in the path option an unescaped space is treated like a comma. > 2. what means '\\\ '? Except for the unnecessary backslash this means to replace every space with a backslash and a space. The double backslash seems to be needed even in single quotes. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
