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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:05:54AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 21:23:35 +0100
> Chris Green <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I want to change the location of my .vilerc startup file (to $HOME/bin
> > rather than $HOME).
> > 
> > So I set VILE_STARTUP_PATH to $HOME/bin and moved .vilerc to $HOME/bin
> > but it doesn't appear to work.  I've checked the environment:-
> > 
> >     chris$ env | grep VILE
> >     VILE_STARTUP_PATH=/home/chris/bin
> > 
> > This is on linux (xubuntu).  Does setting VILE_STARTUP_PATH not
> > override the compiled in value?
> > 
> > I guess I can use 'source /home/chris/bin/.vilerc' in a VILEINIT
> > variable instead.
> > 
> 
> 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
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