Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marc Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No idea what might cause this but you might try >> * adding alias gvim="gvim -c source ~/.vimrc" > > I'm not using gvim. I work in X at home machine but even then I use > vim. But a lot of what I do is from a bash cmdline on remote > machines. > > > This: alias vim="vim -c source ~/.vimrc" > > doesn't work here... fails like this when I start vim after sourcing > .bashrc > > Error detected while processing command line: > E471: Argument required
try alias vim="vim -c 'source ~/.vimrc'" instead. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin)