Modify PATH internally from with gvim?

Question

I have quite a few tools expected to be used togather with gvim on Windows. Usually the env variable PATH should be set for each tool respectively. Is it possible to make the modified PATH variable privately visible to gvim itself rather than system-widely visible to all programs?

BR,Ruochen

Answer 1

You can modify the PATH directly inside Vim (or your ~/.vimrc); it will then used for any external command started from it (i.e. :! and :call system()).

:let $PATH .= ':/tmp'