Re: where does Win7's VIM read my .vimrc files from?

John Trammell wrote:
> Not a vim guru here, but try the output of ":echo $MYVIMRC".
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Windows:
/Users/linda w.BLISS> echo $MYVIMRC
Linux:
Ishtar:linda w> echo $MYVIMRC

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Ben Fritz wrote:
> I don't think any of the .Bliss stuff is needed. But it's easy to
> figure out where Vim things it should look for your .vimrc. Go into
> Vim, and run command,
>
> :echo $HOME
>
/Users/linda w.BLISS> echo $HOME
//Bliss/linda w

Ben Fritz wrote:
> :verbose set fileencodings?
>
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BINGO!

!)$(!)$*(%&!(&#(
_vimrc !!!

Why is it ignoring my .vimrc for a _vimrc
on an NTFS win7 system? Oh...nevermind...
I just deleted the _vimrc, and now it picks up .vimrc...
(Lame!)

> fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,default,latin1,utf-16le
>
> This will have no effect. As it will tell you in the :help, 8-bit
>
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Perfect sense....hadn't gotten that far yet, since it I wasn't even
getting the setting
to set properly...

> fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-16le,utf-8,default,latin1
>
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That does it!...thanks!...
> You can always leave fileencodings as-is, and use :e ++enc=utf-16le to
> work around the problem without messing with options.
>
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Didn't know about that one...and now, probably won't remember it cuz I
won't need it for a real long time (until I run into some other weird
format), and by
then...I'll ...well maybe I'll remember it.... :-).... (but I
wouldn't promise!)

Charles Campbell wrote:
>>>
>> I can't answer the 'fileencodings' question, but the name of the
>> personal vimrc and gvimrc files that Vim actually used should be in
>> $MYVIMRC and $MYGVIMRC, respectively. [snip]
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Yeah, um those didn't work so well...

> As to where your .vimrc is read, Gary J has provided good answers.
> You should do something like
> :echo $MYVIMRC
> from within vim to access these variables -- your environment (o/s)
> probably doesn't know about them.
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^^^^^ AH HA!...yep!..., I saw $ shell... thanks for being clear!
I need to know which $MYVIMRC you are talking about!... ;-)

:echo $HOME
i:\
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Interesting, I have HOME, in my cygwin BASH,
but not in a raw cmd (one not spawned/run from BASH).
There, I only have:
HOMEDRIVE=i:
HOMEPATH=\
HOMESHARE=\\BLISS\linda w

Note, that "i:" is 'map'd to \\Bliss\linda w

So it sorta all ties together...but HOME is 'synthetic' on windows.

Cygwin has it closest to 'right', since if I didn't have drive 'i' mapped
to \\Bliss\linda w, I'm not sure where Vim would get HOME...

I suppose I could try it....
>:->

(That might be why I ended up with a _vimrc in the first place, is I
didn't have
a home-drive mapped to my home-dir)

Thanks to all who responded!

Very appreciated!

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