On Thu 5-Oct-06 8:20pm -0600, Peter Hodge wrote: >> BTW, using >> >> gvim -u NONE -U NONE >> >> is both redundant (in the case of -U NONE), dangerous (since >> default settings may truncate your viminfo on exit), and put >> you in vi compatible mode. Better is: >> >> gvim -u NONE -i NONE -N
> I wouldn't think the -i option is necessary, because 'viminfo' is empty by > default anyway. The first time you use vim that's true. So if you are not planning to use it more than once, you are OK. :h viminfo > Perhaps there should be a shell script distributed with vim so > that anyone can start up vim cleanly. > > cleanvim.sh: > vim -u NONE -i NONE -N --noplugin --cmd 'set rtp=$VIMRUNTIME' '+set rtp&' > > cleanvim.bat: > gvim.exe -u NONE -i NONE -N --noplugin --cmd "set rtp=$VIMRUNTIME" "+set > rtp&" The '--noplugin' is redundant. :h -u :h --noplugin -- Best regards, Bill