Ananya M (RBIN/ECM1) wrote:
Hi,
I m very new to Vim. But I'm smitten by it nevertheless.
I use Gvim 7.0. I also have cygwin installed in my winnt system. Cygwin
defines $HOME to a network drive and places its own .vimrc file in it.
I don’t want gvim to use this rc file since it sits on a server.
How do I force gvim to always consider the _vimrc file in $VIM?
Is there a command line or registry option?
gvim -u /usr/local/share/vim/_vimrc
or
gvim -u /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/vim/vimrc
or whatever
However, if I were you I wouldn't be invoking non-Cygwin gvim from Cygwin
bash. If you do, you'll get no end of trouble with the different path formats
required by the editor and by the shell.
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The gvim docs say that gvim looks for $HOME/_vimrc file first(in Windows
environment).
However why is my gvim even considering a .vimrc file within $HOME?
Shouldn’t it have failed its search for _vimrc in $HOME, and moved on to
$VIM to look for the _vimrc file?
gvim (for unix) looks for:
1) $HOME/.vimrc
2) $HOME/_vimrc
3) fallback, if any, as shown near the middle of the output of ":version"
gvim (for Windows) looks for:
1) %HOME%\_vimrc
2) %HOME%\.vimrc
3) %VIM%\_vimrc
4) %VIM%\.vimrc
If %VIM% is not defined outside of Vim, it first defines it, usually based on
where the executable is located: e.g., "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70\gvim.exe"
will by default use "C:\Program Files\Vim" as $VIM and "C:\Program
Files\Vim\vim70" as $VIMRUNTIME.
See ":help startup" (and in particular ":help _vimrc", incluting the Note) for
details.
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I tried setting $MYVIMRC to $VIM/_vimrc . But this failed, since gvim
always overwrites it to $HOME/.vimrc .
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Thanks for all your answers.
Best regards,
Ananya M
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Tony.
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