Re: Trouble with VIM and some "hidden" vimrc file

By the way, the OS is windows 7. And even after I removed the _vimrc
file under the vim directory, vim still works.

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Denzel Li <denzel.dz.li@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using vim for years and I love it. My problem is: it seems
> that my vim is using an "old" _vimrc file "hidden" somewhere rather
> than the one in the vim directory.
>
> Here is a detailed description of my whole process of finding the problems:
> It was vim7.2  win32 version on my windows 64 system. I have been
> using it for years but just realized none of my source code was
> indented with spaces. So I went to check the _virmrc file on the
> directory installed vim, but it clearly shows:
>
> set expandtab
> set shiftwidth=2
> set softtabstop=2
>
> I then uninstalled vim7.2 (including other plugins etc) and
> reinstalled vim7.3. When I use it to open some text file, it says it
> can not find the colorscheme "blacklight", meanwhile the font is Dina.
> These colorscheme and font are those I used before unstalling vim7.2.
> It is obviously that the fresh vim7.3 is still using that _vimrc file
> (hidden somewhere, not uninstalled but in windows registry?) rather
> than the default one which is in the vim directory.  Then it also
> becomes clear why the indentation by spaces configuration did not
> work: the hidden _vimrc does not set expandtab!
>
> It will be very appreciated if you give my any suggestion.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Denzel
>

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