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| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/builtin.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt index 4bd8975583..6d4003caa9 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt @@ -1256,8 +1256,10 @@ executable({expr}) *executable()* This function checks if an executable with the name {expr} exists. {expr} must be the name of the program without any arguments. + executable() uses the value of $PATH and/or the normal - searchpath for programs. *PATHEXT* + searchpath for programs. + *PATHEXT* On MS-Windows the ".exe", ".bat", etc. can optionally be included. Then the extensions in $PATHEXT are tried. Thus if "foo.exe" does not exist, "foo.exe.bat" can be found. If @@ -1267,8 +1269,13 @@ executable({expr}) *executable()* then the name is also tried without adding an extension. On MS-Windows it only checks if the file exists and is not a directory, not if it's really executable. - On Windows an executable in the same directory as Vim is - always found (it is added to $PATH at |startup|). + On MS-Windows an executable in the same directory as the Vim + executable is always found (it's added to $PATH at |startup|). + *NoDefaultCurrentDirectoryInExePath* + On MS-Windows an executable in Vim's current working directory + is also normally found, but this can be disabled by setting + the $NoDefaultCurrentDirectoryInExePath environment variable. + The result is a Number: 1 exists 0 does not exist |