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I keep a vimrc file stored on Dropbox and use symlinks to point to this so my vimrc is always synced up. Recently I got a new laptop and the location of some utilities are different from that of my old machines -- in particular, my Python installation is in a different spot. Is there a way to do "let &pythonthreedll=PATH" where PATH is the location of Python on my local system (regardless of which machine I'm on)?

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  • I'm not sure I understand your question. Do you need to have the environment variable PythonThreeDll defined? Do you know.ow why, for which plugin, for which usage?
    – Vivian De Smedt
    Jul 26, 2022 at 6:39
  • @VivianDeSmedt 'pythonthreedll' is a Vim option used to specify the location of the Python 3 DLL if it's not on your search path (Windows) or if it doesn't match the environment variables used when compiling Vim (Unix)
    – Rich
    Jul 26, 2022 at 9:19
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    My recommendation would be to configure your OS/environment such that Vim doesn't need to be told where pythonthreedll is… also note that you can use things like exepath()/executable() to find executables (not the same as a DLL, obviously, but can help with portability when needed).
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Jul 26, 2022 at 14:04

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I set environment variables on my machine for the Python .dll and the Python directory. Then, I can reference these variables using the $path convention. Not sure if this is the best way to do this however!

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    I'm not sue I understand your answer. Maybe sharing some code would help understanding what you did exactly.
    – Vivian De Smedt
    Jul 26, 2022 at 6:41

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