On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:33 AM, AK <andrei....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 12:40 PM, Nathan Neff wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does anyone have a quick way to open Vim with a bare-bones
>> ~/.vim directory and ~/.vimrc, etc?
>>
>> I'm developing a plugin, and before I publish a new version
>> of the plugin, I like to test the plugin using a bare-bones
>> ~./vimrc with my plugin installed.
>>
>> Currently, I use a shell-script to switch symlinks.  For example, I have
>> two directories:
>>
>> ~/bare_vim_settings (this dir has nothing but my plugin in it)
>> ~/real_vim_settings (this dir has all my settings/plugins in it)
>>
>> I just run a script that links ~/.vim to ~/bare_vim_settings
>> and ~/.vimrc to ~/bare_vim_settings/bare_vimrc
>>
>> The disadvantage of this is that when my ~/.vim directory is pointing
>> to ~/bare_vim_settings, I'm stuck using Vim with bare settings.
>>
>> Is there a way to run vim like this:
>>
>> vim --settings-directory ~/bare_vim_settings
>>
>> this would create one instance of Vim with the bare settings, and any
>> other instances
>> of vim that I start would have my full-blown plugins/settings enabled.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Nate
>>
>
> I just set the same thing up yesterday. I have a ~/.bvimrc, and ~/.testvim/,
> I run gvim -u ~/.bvimrc, and in .bvimrc I have this:
>
> set
> runtimepath=/home/ak/.testvim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim72,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,/home/ak/.testvim/after

This is excellent.

Thank You.


> Hope this helps.. -ak
>
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