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
home directory, because the login script overrides my settings.
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.
Any advice on how to workaround this issue? Vim keeps grinding to a
halt while waiting for a response from the network drive, so I have to
solve this.
If there's no way to workaround it in Vim, then I will contact IT to
see if they can change my login script.
Best Regards,
Paul Stone
The system-wide vimrc $VIM/vimrc (with no period or underscore) is read before
every other configuration file, even your own _vimrc. However, it is common to
all users. If you have write (or file-creation) access to it, you could add to
it something like
if $HOME == 'Q:\home\paul'
let $HOME = 'C:\paul\home'
endif
to establish a different $HOME directory, only for (g)vim and only for you.
Best regards,
Tony.
