Re: how to make a file relative to $VIM

On Fri, February 1, 2013 10:34, Jeri Raye wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org>
> wrote:
>> Hi Jeri!
>>
> [...]
>> You need to expand the environment variables using expand()
> [...]
>
> When I type :
>
> let MRU_File = expand($VIM)/_vim_mru_files
>
> a) it creates errors
> E121: Undefined variable: _vim_mru_files
> E15: Invalid expression: expand($VIM)/_vim_mru_files

:let expects and an expression and so you need to quote strings and
append them:
:let MRU_File = expand($VIM). "/_vim_mru_files"

alternatively, you can use:
:let my_path = "$VIM/_vim_mru_files"
:let MRU_FILE = expand(my_path)


regards,
Christian

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