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| author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2017-03-04 14:37:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2017-03-04 14:37:18 +0100 |
| commit | 08cab9608781c975b4acbad875862b842b29258d (patch) | |
| tree | e29281ee0634fe4d3405873b87dfbfd360c145b4 /runtime | |
| parent | 391b1dd040af204b150d43c5a1c97477ee450a28 (diff) | |
| download | vim-git-08cab9608781c975b4acbad875862b842b29258d.tar.gz | |
patch 8.0.0405: v:progpath may become invalid after :cdv8.0.0405
Problem: v:progpath may become invalid after ":cd".
Solution: Turn v:progpath into a full path if needed.
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/eval.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index 272c5ea1f..49c955da4 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -1789,8 +1789,11 @@ v:progpath Contains the command with which Vim was invoked, including the |--remote-expr|. To get the full path use: > echo exepath(v:progpath) -< NOTE: This does not work when the command is a relative path - and the current directory has changed. +< If the path is relative it will be expanded to the full path, + so that it still works after `:cd`. Thus starting "./vim" + results in "/home/user/path/to/vim/src/vim". + On MS-Windows the executable may be called "vim.exe", but the + ".exe" is not added to v:progpath. Read-only. *v:register* *register-variable* |