Re: Using :sh

On Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:54:44 AM UTC-5, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, David Ohlemacher wrote:
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> > I use :sh often.  Sometimes I forget that I did so thinking I am in a
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> > regular shell.
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> > Is it possible to tweak the invoked shell?  I would like to change
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> > 'something' as a visual indicator.  :sh does seem to create a new
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> > shell, tcsh for me.
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> For me, the following environment variables get set by vim (and are not
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> normally present in my environment):
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> MYVIMRC
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> VIM
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> VIMRUNTIME
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> You should be able to make use of those in your tcshrc (or equivalent)
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> to change your prompt (for example).
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I think even setting a new one should work, using something like :let $MYNEWVAR='hello world!' I hadn't thought of the existing ones Vim creates, that should work too if you don't set them manually.

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