Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 19/06/09 21:02, Charles Campbell wrote: > >> Tony Mechelynck wrote: >> >>> I believe the difference is that the vimrc and gvimrc are sourced only >>> once at startup (hence, only a small overall performance throwback for >>> checking both names), while the 'runtimepath' directories are walked >>> through at practically every autocommand event, and also for ":runtime" >>> and ":doau" commands. I believe that adding two items in 'runtimepath', >>> though it would work, might reduce performance somewhat. >>> >>> >> I'm not Bram, either -- but one can also just specify the runtimepath >> via the environment >> variable VIMRUNTIME with whatever path one deems suitable. >> >> Regards, >> Chip Campbell >> > > That is not the 'runtimepath' but the $VIMRUNTIME, i.e., the _single_ > directory head of the tree containing the runtime files from the Vim > _distribution_, which must NOT be changed by the user. > > The default 'runtimepath' setting is (and I'm adding linebreaks for > clarity): > on Windows: > ~/vimfiles, > $VIM/vimfiles, > $VIMRUNTIME, > $VIM/vimfiles/after, > ~/vimfiles/after > on Unix: > ~/.vim, > $VIM/vimfiles, > $VIMRUNTIME, > $VIM/vimfiles/after, > ~/.vim/after > > The proposed change would be to make that: > on Windows: > ~/vimfiles, > ~/.vim, > $VIM/vimfiles, > $VIMRUNTIME, > $VIM/vimfiles/after, > ~/.vim/after, > ~/vimfiles/after > on Unix: > ~/.vim, > ~/vimfiles, > $VIM/vimfiles, > $VIMRUNTIME, > $VIM/vimfiles/after, > ~/vimfiles/after, > ~/.vim/after > > with seven instead of five trees in each case. > > Guess I should've tried it first. What I was thinking was something along the lines of
set VIMRUNTIME=$HOME/.vim,/usr/local/share/vim/vim72 where the extra directory gets inserted into the path. Unfortunately that doesn't appear to work, so VIMRUNTIME doesn't support a list of paths. Regards, Chip Campbell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
