Hi,
to me it's no clear what you mean by prevent Vim from going to my Home
directory. I'm using Vim on windows, too, but he never asked me for a
HOME directory. Instead, the _vimrc file is kept in $VIMRUNTIME, which
by default on XP is C:\Programme\Vim\vim70. Therefore, all you have to
do
Wolfgang Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
to me it's no clear what you mean by prevent Vim from going to my Home
directory. I'm using Vim on windows, too, but he never asked me for a
HOME directory. Instead, the _vimrc file is kept in $VIMRUNTIME, which
by default on XP is C:\Programme\Vim\vim70.
I know this is a bizarre request. I would like to prevent Vim from
going to my Home directory. The reason is that my IT department has
mapped my home directory to a laggy network drive with a login script.
I can't override the Windows environment variables which set up the
home directory,
Paul Stone wrote:
I know this is a bizarre request. I would like to prevent Vim from
going to my Home directory. The reason is that my IT department has
mapped my home directory to a laggy network drive with a login script.
I can't override the Windows environment variables which set up the
Paul Stone wrote:
Just to be clear, my User Profiles directory is in the usual spot on
the C: drive. It's just the HOMEDRIVE, HOMEDIR, and HOMESHARE
environment variables that are pointing to the network.
Paul Stone
Then it's even easier than what I suggested: if everyone can accept to use
Both methods worked like a charm. Thanks very much!! :)
Setting it to USERPROFILE is a little more elegant, so I will go with that.
I'm back to happy Vimming!
Paul Stone
On 11/21/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul Stone wrote:
Just to be clear, my User Profiles directory
On Tue 21-Nov-06 9:12pm -0600, Paul Stone wrote:
I know this is a bizarre request. I would like to prevent Vim from
going to my Home directory. The reason is that my IT department has
mapped my home directory to a laggy network drive with a login script.
I can't override the Windows
I can set up the environment in a DOS box, but I like to be able to
invoke Vim by using the edit with vim context menu item.
Well, if you're comfortable digging around in the registry, you
might be able to find the edit with vim key...you might try
