Re: [vile] I can't get VILE_STARTUP_PATH to do what I expected it to do

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 09:12:39 +0100
Chris Green <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:38:22PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is all explained in the Invocation section of the vile :help
> > > file.  VILE_STARTUP_PATH must be set in the confguration at compile
> > > time.  
> > 
> > It's more flexible than that - VILE_STARTUP_PATH is an environment
> > variable which overrides the compiled-in default for $startup-path
> > 
> > However, there are other things in the path, which you can see using
> > 
> >     2:which-source .vilerc
> > 
> > for example:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Show which source-paths are tested for:
> >     .vilerc
> > ("*" marks found-files)
> > 
> > $cwd
> >     .vilerc
> > $HOME
> > *   /users/tom/.vilerc
> > $startup-path
> > *   /users/tom/bin/.vilerc
> >     /usr/share/vile/.vilerc
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >   
> I don't get *anything* like that!
> 
> When I do ':which-source .vilerc' I just see /home/chris/.vilerc
> in the status line, and nothing else.
> 
> If I set VILE_STARTUP_PATH to /home/chris/bin then ':which-source
> .vilerc' just produces .vilerc on the status line. ... or if I move to
> another directory and run vile it gives /home/chris/.vilerc.  Setting
> VILE_STARTUP_PATH doesn't seem to change anything.
> 

I had the same problem, but if you enter it exactly as shown, with
the 2:..., then all that stuff will show up.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn