Re: location of vim rc files and directories. Making them relocatable.

2017-11-25 19:17 GMT+03:00 Jose Caballero <jcaballero.hep@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> this is a quick question about how to modify my .vimrc and all my
> plugins so I can copy all of them to different hosts (under different
> usernames) and still work.
>
> I have all of them (vimrc and all plugin directories) in a github account.
> So my intention is, when I login to a remote host -either root or any
> other user account-, I would like to clone that account, and being
> able to keep using them.
> I don't want to place them under the usual locations (~/.vimrc and
> ~/.vim) because, as mentioned, sometimes I log as root, on a shared
> host, so I cannot interfere with others.
>
> So basically I want to place the files under /tmp/, for example.
> However, I have things hardcoded in the files. Things like this:
>
> autocmd BufNewFile *.py :-1read ~/.vim/templates/emptypython
>
> So I would like to know if there is a mechanism, like an env var or
> similar, to avoid using hardcoded absolute paths, and make everything
> relative.
>
> googling, I got that I can use -u to point to .vimrc. That solves part
> of the problem.
> But I still need a way to make the rest of them relative.
> Which key word should I search for?

:h <sfile>

>
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Jose
>
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