My ~/.vimrc file contains these lines:

source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/syntax.vim

but recently one of the Debian upgrades must have changed
$VIMRUNTIME; it now points to /usr/share/vim, whereas what I
want it to point to is something like
/usr/share/vim/vimcurrent (=/usr/share/vim/vim64). This
suggests to me that $VIMRUNTIME isn't the variable I want to
be using there; what variable reliably points to the proper
directory?

Likewise, recent Debian changes seem to have hosed :help; if
I try to do :help, I get

'Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found'

'help.txt', as it turns out, is in
/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc/help.txt . So again, it looks like
some internal environment variable got screwed up; which
variable points to the proper base directory for vim's
documentation?

I'm looking for something other than Debian-specific
answers, because I carry my .vimrc file around to lots of
different Unices and I'd like it to work on all of them. I
hope there's a good platform-independent set of variables
for me to use.

Thanks very much,
Steve

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