I apologise if my question seems a bit naive, but what do you mean by "setting the variables in ~/.profile".
When I open my .profile I only see the following line "export PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH"" Do I just add the line and save? let g:Tex_TEXINPUTS = '/usr/local ..." Thanks a lot J On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 9:39:09 PM UTC+2, Christoph Wiesmeyr wrote: > > Despite what you read on the web, ~/.bashrc is not the right place > > > > to set environment variables. For one thing, they won't be > > > > available to programs launched from Vim with ":!command". For > > > > another, they won't be available to programs started from your > > > > window manager, as gvim often is. > > > > > > > > Where you _should_ put environment variables is changing. In the > > > > beginning, personal environment variables were set in ~/.profile. > > > > Period. Then bash came along and offered ~/.bash_profile as an > > > > alternative. Now I understand that Ubuntu recommends putting them > > > > in ~/.environment. I believe that other desktop environments have > > > > their own pet places. For the time being, however, I think that > > > > ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile will still be sourced when you log in > > > > and before your window manager is launched, which is when you want > > > > them set so that they are available to programs such as gvim. > > > > Setting the variables in ~/.profile solved the problem for me, now everything > works like a charm. Thank you very much for your detailed explanation, I > really appreciate this. > > > > Best regards, > Christoph -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
