Thank you for the useful info. I've two more annoying problems: 1. Whenever I try to edit my rc file using ":e $MYVIMRC" or ":e $VIM/_vimrc", gvim just hangs. It opens the rc file (I can see the file attributes being displayed, and a swap file is created) but the contents are not seen. No response to keyboard or mouse events.
2. In windows, when I right click on a file and do "Open With" and choose "gvim", gvim comes up with its default "NO NAME" window. Its as though it didn't consider the file to be opened at all. The same happens when I set associativity of all *.txt files with gvim. Has my windows registry screwep up again? Best Regards, Ananya M -----Original Message----- From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13. April 2007 3:48 PM To: Ananya M (RBIN/ECM1) Cc: 'Vim mailing list' Subject: Re: Vimrc blues. 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. > > ----- > > 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. > > ------ > > I tried setting $MYVIMRC to $VIM/_vimrc . But this failed, since gvim > always overwrites it to $HOME/.vimrc . > > ------ > > Thanks for all your answers. > > Best regards, > Ananya M > > //I'm sorry to have sent this mail directly to you. > //My mailer daemon failed to deliver the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > The reason your mail didn't appear on the list is, I think, because you sent it in HTML (or rather, in both plaintext and HTML). Next time, send only plaintext: all HTML mail is discarded by the list robot, as an anti-spam measure. Best regards, Tony. -- One seldom sees a monument to a committee.
