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statquant

Reputation: 14370

Why is gvim not loading my _vimrc

I created the following script, by my _vimrc is not loaded... gvim opens but no vimrc NOTE: If I put the _vimrc in %USERPROFILE% it is loaded but this is not what I want

@echo off

set GVIMPATH="C:\Program Files\Vim\vim73"
set PATH=%PATH%;%GVIMPATH%
set MYVIMRC=U:\Work\vim\_vimrc
set MYGVIMRC=U:\Work\vim\_vimrc
set VIMHOME=U:\Work\vim

start gvim.exe

Upvotes: 0

Views: 888

Answers (2)

José L. Patiño
José L. Patiño

Reputation: 3809

You can pass the -u option when you execute vim to load a custom vimrc file from wherever you want, like: vim -u C:\Windows\whatever\vimrc_files\statquant_custom_vimrc, for example.

You can take a look on this SuperUser question, maybe it can help you.

Upvotes: 2

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172570

What I mentioned here was wrong, MYVIMRC apparently is read-only; one cannot use it to override the .vimrc location. In a wrapper script, better pass the location via the -u command-line argument:

@echo off

set GVIMPATH="C:\Program Files\Vim\vim73"
set PATH=%PATH%;%GVIMPATH%
set VIMHOME=U:\Work\vim

start gvim.exe -u U:\Work\vim\_vimrc -U U:\Work\vim\_gvimrc

Upvotes: 2

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