Introduction

The runtime: module provides information about the Elvish runtime.

Variables

$runtime:effective-rc-path

Path to the RC path that is actually used for this Elvish session:

• If Elvish is running non-interactively or invoked with the -norc flag, this variable is $nil.

• If Elvish is invoked with the -rc flag, this variable contains the absolute path of the argument.

• Otherwise (when Elvish is running interactively and invoked without -norc or -rc), this variable has the same value as $rc-path.

This variable is read-only.

See also $runtime:rc-path.

$runtime:elvish-path

The path to the Elvish binary.

If there was an error in determining the path, this variable is $nil.

This variable is read-only.

$runtime:lib-dirs

A list containing module search directories.

This variable is read-only.

$runtime:rc-path

Path to the RC file, ignoring any possible overrides by command-line flags and available in non-interactive mode.

If there was an error in determining the path of the RC file, this variable is $nil.

This variable is read-only.

See also $runtime:effective-rc-path.