Hello Vim Developers, I was timing the startup process by stepping though what I think Gvim does (on Win XP Pro with 7.0.42).
gvim -u NONE -N That starts up without _vimrc or _gvimrc or plugins and sets nocp. :so $vim\_vimrc worked fine. :so $vim\_gvimrc also worked fine. :ru! plugin\**\*.vim didn't seem to do anything. Repeating the above as :verb ru! plugin\**\*.vim reports: not found in 'runtimepath': "plugin\**\*.vim" Hmm, when I tried again with the unixy :ru! plugin/**/*.vim the plugins were finally sourced. Bug? -- Best regards, Bill