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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