Re: setttings where all users home directories are set to HOME

On 21/09/11 03:47, Lacis, Alf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At a customer site, all users home dirs are set to the same $HOME.

The way I see it, this is an abuse of the definition of $HOME. Each
login name should correspond to a different home directory; usually the
path contains the username as one of its elements.

>
> How do I have a unique settings file? Can I specify a personal settings
> file on the command line?
>
> Alf

Yes you can, see :help -u

However Vim will not automagically set 'nocompatible' when -u has been
used. You have to set it yourself, preferably as the first command in
your startup script.

Also, using -u overrides any user vimrc ($HOME/.vimrc or $HOME/_vimrc)
and any system vimrc ($VIM/vimrc, may be changed at compile-time) — none
of them will be sourced, unless explicitly specified as the operand of a
:source command in a script which _is_ sourced.

Best regards,
Tony.
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