Re: Where is my system-wide init file?

On 29/12/13 11:48, egarrulo wrote:
> On my Linux distro there are these system-wide initialization files:
>
> /etc/vim/gvimrc
> /etc/vim/vimrc
> /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny
> /usr/share/vim/gvimrc
> /usr/share/vim/vimrc
> /usr/share/vim/vimrc.tiny
>
> Does GVim load any of them?
>
> :echo $MYVIMRC
>
> returns ~/.vimrc, while
>
> :version
>
> returns
>
> system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
> user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
> 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
> user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
> system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
> user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
> 2nd user gvimrc file: "~/.vim/gvimrc"
> system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
> fall-back for $VIM: "/home/egarrulo/bin/vim/vim-7.4.280/share/vim"
>
> and
>
> :echo $VIM
>
> returns:
>
> /home/egarrulo/bin/vim/vim-7.4.280/share/vim
>
> and no .vimrc is there. Thus, GVim shouldn't be loading any of the
> above system-wide init files, but it seems it does.
>
> Any idea? Thanks.
>

1. Try "ls -l" on some of these files (in subfolders of /etc and of
/usr/share) to see if any of them is a soft link. (Seeing if it's a hard
link is less obvious). Or maybe /home/egarrulo or
/home/egarrulo/bin/vim/vim-7.4.280/share are soft links?

2. Maybe there is another Vim (later in the $PATH) on your system? What
does the bash commands

type -a vim
type -a gvim

return? (I'm saying bash because in bash "type" is a builtin command,
which reports even about aliases; I don't know how to get the same
results with other shells.)

Here too, apply "ls -l" to any answer until you've resolved all
softlinks there might be (for instance, gvim may be a link to vim).


The system-wide vimrc for that copy of Vim, sourced before the user's
vimrc, is $VIM/vimrc — with whatever $VIM may be when that user runs
Vim. You seem to find that $VIM is $HOME/vim/vim-7.4.280/share/vim, for
another user it would probably not be a subfolder of _your_ $HOME.

Also, I wonder why you have a "vim-7.4.280" link in that path. Do you
change that at every patchlevel? Also, where did you get that "280"
from? The current patchlevel is only 7.4.131.

For the Vim that I compile for my home computer, I use Vim's defaults,
namely:

$VIM = /usr/local/share/vim
$VIMRUNTIME = $VIM/vim74 (at version 7.4)
The (Huge) vim executable is in /usr/local/bin
The gvim executable is a soft link
/usr/local/share/bin/gvim -> ./vim
In addition I have a Tiny vim executable at /usr/local/bin/vi

This way, my custom runtime files (not from the Vim distribution) at
/usr/local/share/vim/vimfiles/ (system-wide) and, of course, at
$HOME/.vim/ (single-user) will remain even after the release of Vim 7.5
or 8.0.

Best regards,
Tony.
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