On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:38:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Running Gentoo linux
> vim 7
> (~/.vimrc follows message; compile info follows ~/.vimrc)
>
> On a recent fresh install after setting up ~/ I'm finding that vim
> appears not to be slurping ~/.vimrc. When it starts I don't see my
> settings showing line number and percentage of file.
>
> Running `:so ~/.vimrc' sets things right but what might cause vim not to
> read it at startup.
> ~/.vimrc is symlinked to a cvs copy of .vimrc but if that were the
> problem then it seems running `:so ~/.vimrc' would show some kind of
> error but it doesn't. And anyway I've been having ~/.vimrc as a
> symlink for a very long time now.
No idea what might cause this but you might try
* adding alias gvim="gvim -c "source ~/.vimrc"
to your bashrc as workaround
* adding -V10 or something like this to get more debug output..
I get the lines:
[...]
finished sourcing /etc/vim/vimrc
sourcing "$HOME/.vimrc"
Marc
