[Vim-vms] Vim-vms Digest, Vol 21, Issue 3

[Samuel Ferencik]

Hello Zoltan,

following our October discussion about how to define the VIMRUNTIME
logical, I changed the definition in my VMS login script to:
    $ def VIMRUNTIME $VIM
You also changed the setup instructions on Polarhome to this.

Although the previous problems have been solved (the autocomplete
feature is now working), my :help stopped working. When I enter
    :help
in vim, I get the following error:
    Sorry, help file "$VIM/doc/help.txt" not found

Maybe this is a problem with VMS paths in vim, I don't know. In any
case, one working solution is to not define the VIMRUNTIME logical,
and let vim determine its $VIMRUNTIME dynamically.

Can you reproduce this? Can it be fixed easily? If not, perhaps it
would be good to recommend not defining the logical on Polarhome.

Thanks,
Sam

> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:34:47 +0200
> From: "Arpadffy Zoltan" <Zoltan.Arpadffy at scientificgames.se>
> Subject: Re: [Vim-vms] definition of vimruntime logical
> To: "Vim text editor list on OpenVMS" <vim-vms at polarhome.com>
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> Hello Samuel,
>
> >alternative 0:
> >- use the "optional" definition suggested by the website
> >- login.com contains:
> >    $ def vim full_path:[to.the.directory]
> >    $ def vimruntime vim
> >- completion does NOT work
>
> You have right... VIMRUNTIME is wrong defined like this.
> Vim will never expand VIM, because it is treathen as absolute path and
> not a logical. Logicals begin with $.
> VIMRUNTIME should be defined as $VIM and it will work, like below:
>
>     $ def vim full_path:[to.the.directory]
>     $ def vimruntime $vim
>
> I will change on the page and in the documentation as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Z