$HOME environment variable not being interpreted under Windows

[mrbrich]

Under Windows, when I run :PlugInstall the packages are downloaded to an incorrect location. Instead of putting them under vimfiles\plugged in the directory pointed to by my $HOME environment variable (e.g. C:\Users), a directory named '$HOME' (literally) is created under the current directory and the files placed there. In other words, it is as if the $HOME variable is not being interpreted as a variable, but taken as a literal string.

p.s. I know Windows may not be your priority, but it would still be nice to fix this issue. Thanks for a great tool.

[junegunn]

Hmm, the latest commit might fix this problem as well.
Please update and let me know of the result.

If you still see the problem, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions.

• Do you pass argument to plug#begin()? (Something like plug#begin('~/vimfiles/plugged') or just plug#begin() ?)
• What is the value of g:plug_home after plug#end() call?

[mrbrich]

That was the problem, I was passing the argument like this:

call plug#begin('$HOME/vimfiles/plugged')

I changed it to

call plug#begin('~/vimfiles/plugged')

and problem solved! Sorry, I don't know where that came from. Anyways, thanks.

[junegunn]

No problem. Actually plug#begin() does not try to expand $SOMETHING-form in the argument. So it's the expected behavior. Instead you can build the string yourself like so: plug#begin($HOME . '/vimfiles/plugged')