Bill McCarthy wrote:
On Wed 26-Jul-06 5:03pm -0600, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
$HOME/vimfiles and $HOME/vimfiles/after should be in your 'rtp' (on
Windows); the first place where Vim looks for your _vimrc is $HOME even
though it is not in 'rtp'. (And BTW, $VIM should not be in your 'rtp'
either; but $VIM/vimfiles and $VIM/vimfiles/after -- and $VIMRUNTIME
which, on version 7.0, is $VIM/vim70 -- should.)
From :h starting
Recommended place for your personal initializations:
MS-DOS and Win32 $HOME/_vimrc or $VIM/_vimrc
I use the second choice.
In an office environment I do use the $home directory for
all personalizations. But at home, I find it more
convenient to not do this - nor do I rely on automatic
assignment of $home (this can lead to using embedded spaces
inside directory or filenames - an offense worthy of Gitmo
:)
My _vimrc contains:
set runtimepath=$vimfiles,$vimruntime,$vimfiles\\after
(I don't know where you got the idea that $vim was in there)
where:
let $vimfiles = $vim . '\vimfiles'
is defined at the top of the file.
I didn't; except you mentioned as a kind of "justification" that $HOME
wasn't in it.
Best regards,
Tony.
