[SOLVED] Re: Make vim use the right external program

2011-03-28 19:48, Gary Johnson skrev:
> On 2011-03-28, Tim Chase wrote:
>> On 03/28/2011 08:11 AM, BPJ wrote:
>>> How can I make
>>>
>>> :!perl ...
>>>
>>> use the perl symlinked at ~/bin/perl
>>> rather than /usr/bin/perl without actually
>>> having to type :!~/bin/perl every time?
>>
>> What's your $PATH set to?
>>
>> You can find out what your system thinks it's set to with
>>
>> set PATH
>>
>> at the command-prompt and you can show what Vim thinks it is by
>> issuing
>>
>> :echo $PATH
>>
>> your ~/bin directory should precede /usr/bin in the path. If it
>> follows /usr/bin or is absent, you need to set your path
>> accordingly (and export it if you're on *nix). Usually you can
>> tweak this in your .bashrc, .bash_profile, or your Environment
>> Variables dialog on (win32).
>>
>> In my .bash_profile it reads:
>>
>> if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
>> export PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
>> fi
>>
>> and in my Win32, I have a local User setting something like
>>
>> PATH=c:\users\tchase\bin;%PATH%
>
> Or, if you want that PATH setting only when using Vim, or if you're
> launching gvim from your window manager and you put your PATH
> setting in a shell configuration file that's not read into your
> window manager's environment, you can set PATH within your ~/.vimrc
> like this:
>
> let $PATH = "~/bin:" . $PATH
>
> (Unfortunately, :let doesn't have a ^= operator like :set has.)
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>

Problem solved. PATH and everything such was correctly set,
which was part of why I was confused (should have mentioned
that! :-) but I had made a typo in the filename of a filter
script so that the old version wasn't overwritten when I
cp'ed the new version to where I keep my filters. I thought
the strange results I got when filtering a particular chunk
of text yesterday was due to the perl 5.10 named capture bug
when in fact I was using the wrong version of the script.

Thanks to both of you anyway!

/bp

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