Monday, May 24, 2010

introduction, and a beginner question about vimrc files

Hi,

this is my first post in this list, so I wanted to introduce myself and say hello to everyone here.

I have a very basic question, as a beginner I am using vi.
I use vim 6.3.82, on Red Hat. I have no root privileges.

Right now I have all my mappings and abbreviations and those things in a single file: ~/.vimrc
Clearly that is not efficient given I am using the same setup if I edit a python script, a HTML document, a C++ one, etc. Not good.

However, following other threads is this very list I have seen there is a whole nomenclature and rc files are placed in different subdirectories -like /syntax/ ... - or the name of the rc is different depending on the type of file one wants to edit, etc.
Is there some URL where all these topics are explained in such a way a beginner can understand it? I have googled a little, but with no success. I find many tips, but always assuming the reader knows in which particular rc file those tips must be allocated.

Thanks a lot for your patience.
Cheers,
Jose


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