Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You might try starting vim this way, > > vim -V --noplugin > > which will try to source your .vimrc but not all your plugins, so > the verbose output should be short and easy to read. The output > should say definitively whether your .vimrc could be sourced or not. > The output of :version, which you attached,
I still get what appears to be 100 or more lines of this: Searching for "/home/reader/.vim/syntax/syncolor.vim" Searching for "/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/syncolor.vim" Searching for "/usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/syncolor.vim" [...] Ending: Searching for "/home/reader/.vim/after/syntax/syncolor.vim" finished sourcing $HOME/.vimrc Reading viminfo file "/home/reader/.viminfo" info Then press enter to open vim. And still, eventhough it has apparantly sourced ~/.vimrc it still opens without my settings and with other settings in place.... one that turns the modeline purple for example. (this is not gvim but vim) And the normal settings I'm used to only appear after `:so ~/.vimrc' by hand once vim is up. > :help startup Shows all those dozens of files to source too. > will tell you what vim should be doing during startup and may give > you some ideas of other things to check. For example, executing > :echo $MYVIMRC Shows the expected ~/.vimrc But if that were so then my settings should be in place but they are not. Running `:so ~/.vimrc' by hand makes my normal settings appear. these are setting that have built up over years and have been in use over many rebuilds of OS.
