Re: how to make a file relative to $VIM

Hi,

Christian Brabandt wrote:
> 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"

you don't need expand() here. It's onyl necessary if you want to expand
environment variables inside a string, like in the second example. Thus,

:let MRU_File = $VIM . "/_vim_mru_files"

is sufficient.

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

Regards,
Jürgen

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