Re: $VIMRC over .vimrc ?

* Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> [260319 09:04]:
> That's what I used to think, too, was that MYVIMRC was set, but not
> read, by Vim. But ":help MYVIMRC" says this:
>
> *$MYVIMRC* *$MYVIMDIR*
> c. Five places are searched for initializations. The first that exists
> is used, the others are ignored. The `$MYVIMRC` environment variable is
> set to the file that was first found, unless `$MYVIMRC` was already set
> when using VIMINIT. ...
>
> It's that "unless `$MYVIMRC was already set" that I don't understand
> the meaning of. That suggests to me if $MYVIMRC is already set, Vim
> uses that value instead of looking further for the file.
>
> In my experiments, I executed
>
> VIMINIT='let $MYVIMRC="/path/to/a/vimrc"' vim
>
> expecting Vim to source /path/to/a/vimrc, but it didn't. I'm OK
> with the actual behavior, but I don't think the documentation is
> clear.

Christian's interpretation is how I also interpret this, and it is
empirically corroborated.

Everyone seems to quote the help as saying "unless `$MYVIMRC` was
already set when using VIMINIT."

However, my vim (9.0.0135 which is several years old) has the word
"and", and there are no backticks around $MYVIMRC: "unless $MYVIMRC was
already set and when using VIMINIT."

Perhaps the word "and" was inadvertently dropped when editing this
(perhaps to add the backticks)?

...Marvin

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