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Re: [vile] I can't get VILE_STARTUP_PATH to do what I expected it to do
From: |
Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: [vile] I can't get VILE_STARTUP_PATH to do what I expected it to do |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Jun 2016 04:48:34 -0400 (EDT) |
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Chris Green" <address@hidden>
| To: address@hidden
| Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 4:12:39 AM
| Subject: Re: [vile] I can't get VILE_STARTUP_PATH to do what I expected it to
do
|
| On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:38:22PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
| > >
| > > This is all explained in the Invocation section of the vile :help
| > > file. VILE_STARTUP_PATH must be set in the confguration at
| > > compile
| > > time.
| >
| > It's more flexible than that - VILE_STARTUP_PATH is an environment
| > variable which overrides the compiled-in default for $startup-path
| >
| > However, there are other things in the path, which you can see
| > using
| >
| > 2:which-source .vilerc
| >
| > for example:
| >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| > Show which source-paths are tested for:
| > .vilerc
| > ("*" marks found-files)
| >
| > $cwd
| > .vilerc
| > $HOME
| > * /users/tom/.vilerc
| > $startup-path
| > * /users/tom/bin/.vilerc
| > /usr/share/vile/.vilerc
| >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| >
| I don't get *anything* like that!
|
| When I do ':which-source .vilerc' I just see /home/chris/.vilerc
| in the status line, and nothing else.
You need a repeat-count in front of the macro, otherwise it'll show only the
single line.
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