> On Apr 7, 6:54 pm, rameo<rai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> and moved my menu.vim to vimfiles (root) but received this error:
>>
>> Error detected while processing C:\Program Files\Vim
>> \vim73\filetype.vim:
>
> You've got that error because the standard menu.vim wasn't found. The
> point with my approach is that one can leave the distributed files
> alone, so that a new version won't cause trouble. To solve this, just
> put a dummy script, or a copy of your version, back in C:\Program
> Files\Vim\vim73.
Any change (including any addition or deletion) in $VIMRUNTIME or below
it at any level is courting disaster, because:
- the various scripts distributed with Vim rely on finding what was put
there at install time (as you saw);
- any upgrade may (and sooner or later some upgrade will) remove your
changes with no warning.
>
>> What do you mean by "early in the runtimepath option"?
>
> The runtimepath option is a list of directories. On Windows the
> default is
>
> $HOME/vimfiles,$VIM/vimfiles,$VIMRUNTIME,$VIM/vimfiles/after,$HOME/
> vimfiles/after
>
> By early I meant "a directory that comes before $VIMRUNTIME in the
> list". I use $HOME/vimfiles, but for a windows installation with
> several users all wanting to use your menu.vim $VIM/vimfiles would be
> better; you may have to create it.
>
> Regards, John
>
Best regards,
Tony.
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