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

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 07:38:10PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov wrote:
> 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>
>

You can also pair GNU stow and Git to manage configuration files.
http://davebucklin.com/play/2017/03/24/backing-up-dotfiles-with-stow-and-git.html

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