Re: Registration of Vim executable on Windows

On Mo, 03 Aug 2020, Anton Shepelev wrote:

> Hello, all
>
> How are the Vim executables regitered on Windows so that
> they are always available from the command prompt even
> though no environment variable seems to contain their path? On
> my PC, for example, Vim's executables are installed at
>
> C:\Program Files\Vim\vim80
>
> but
>
> set | grep vim
>
> does show anything. How does Windows locate vim.exe,
> gvim.exe when I invoke them from the command line?

This is done using the %PATH% environment variable, see e.g. the
wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)

Best,
Christian
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