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Often in my scripts I have some ugly snippets like the following:

vim9script
var bin = ""
if has("win32")
    bin = "\\bin"
else
    bin = "/bin"
endif

g:path_with_bin = g:path .. bin

The same happens when it comes to environment variables since they are expressed as $MY_VARIABLE syntax in OSX and Linux systems and %MY_VARIABLE% in Windows (at least when using cmd.exe).

I am wondering if there are functions that recognise the OS and prevent us to explicitely use conditionals, something like

g:path_with_bin = g:path .. adjust_slashes(bin)

that sets slash-backslashes automatically depending on the OS, or, for environment variables, something like the following:

env_var_set(MY_VARIABLE, value)

which set $MY_VARIABLE or %MY_VARIABLE% to value depending on the OS.

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    All that typing instead of a simple :h env<C-d>…
    – romainl
    May 25 at 14:12
  • Could you tell us a bit more about what you want to achieve? I believe there are numerous cases where you can use the Unix syntax on both Linux and Windows. The exception being creating a some Windows command line statement but here also Windows accept very often the Unix syntax. An example would be helpful.
    – Vivian De Smedt
    May 25 at 14:32
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    @VivianDeSmedt nothing more and nothing less than what I described: setting paths and environment variables. That is all. I accepted your answer as it solved both of my problems. Thanks.
    – Barzi2001
    May 25 at 14:59
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    Thanks for the feedback :-)
    – Vivian De Smedt
    May 25 at 15:02

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For environment variable you can use within Vim the Unix syntax:

:echo $foo
let $foo = 'bar'

For the path I believe you can also use the Unix syntax (/ separated path) for all the Vim API.

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  • Hm, I wonder if this works for :let $PATH = … to convert / in … on Windows? I don't have a Windows machine to test
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    May 26 at 12:52
  • Vim will not convert but Windows will make the best of a path containing / instead of `. The only problem I see is that the dos command don't accept path containing /` since they are interpreted as options. But if you are making dos command in a Vim script I suppose you should encapsulate it in if has('win32') anyway.
    – Vivian De Smedt
    May 26 at 13:00

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