Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Re: _vimrc not run when invoking gvim on text file from context menu

On Feb 22, 1:14 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, February 21, 2013 11:54:07 AM UTC-6, Paul wrote:
> > There are restrictions that a solution would have to observe.  First
>
> > is that I don't have admin privileges, so I can only stick _vimrc in
>
> > places where $USERNAME can write.  Also, $HOME is not a good place for
>
> > it because it is set to a network drive.
>
> How about putting a very bare-bones .vimrc in $HOME, which just sets the runtimepath to somewhere else (local) and then sources your local .vimrc. You could even detect Windows vs. Unix/Cygwin and do something different for each.

My apologies for the long overdue response. Thanks, but the problem
with putting a bare .vimrc at $HOME is that I'm not always connected
to the network. I managed to solve the problem by setting $VIMINIT as
a Windows environment variable.

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