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 02:22:26AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 19:38:22 -0400
> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> > 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
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> 
> Right.  I misread the Invocation section and thought it was only for
> VMS unless it was compiled in.
> 
> So, why doesn't it work for OP?

I suspect he'll see something in the output of the macro that shows an
earlier copy of .vilerc being found

(the usual "other" reason for not sourcing a file is because of too-permissive
permissions on the directory, but I didn't suggest that because ~/bin ought
to be okay...)

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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