Re: Where should $VIM point to?

On Fr, 07 Okt 2022, Enan Ajmain wrote:

> Where should `:h $VIM` point toward? Where vim is installed or where vim
> configurations is situated? By default it points to where vim is
> installed. But the help doc says:
>
> > The environment variable "$VIM" is used to locate various user files
> > for Vim, such as the user startup script ".vimrc".
> ^^^^^^
>
> Is `$VIM` supposed to point to my user config folder or the installation
> directory? What is its intended purpose?

You should not be required to bother :)

By default, it points to the installation folder (the parent of the
vim90 folder, so typically /usr/share/vim). You can check from within
Vim by doing :echo $VIM

Note, it may contain the so-called system vimrc, as mentioned in the
output of :version

,----
| system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
`----


Best,
Christian
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