Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

Hi,

Linda W wrote:
>
> I Can say one thing for certain. The PC Version hasn't been a correct
> path since Win98 (if then).
>
> HOME isn't a a system defined var. HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH, yes...but not
> HOME. So unless someone set it, it won't it won't exist.

there's no need for the user to set $HOME on Windows. Vim does it by
itself if $HOME is not already defined. Do a

:help version6

and search for HOMEDRIVE.

Regards,
Jürgen

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