Where is the Vimrc in Windows 10?

Where is the Vimrc in Windows 10?

3 Answers

• System wide file: “/etc/vimrc”
• User file: “$HOME/.vimrc”
• Second user file: “~/.vim/vimrc”

How do I edit Vimrc in Windows 10?

Opening vimrc Using file name completion, you could type :e $M then press Tab until you see the desired variable. If you only want to see the path, type :echo $M then press Tab to see the variable, and press Enter. In gvim, the Edit menu includes “Startup Settings” which will use $MYVIMRC to edit your vimrc file.

How do I source Vimrc?

Sourcing it is the same as typing each command in order. You source with the command :source (usually shortened to :so ). The only file sourced by default is the . vimrc ( _vimrc on windows) so that’s a place you can keep all the commands you use to set up Vim every time.

How do I install Vundle on Windows?

NOW let’s get after it!

1. Download the gVim installer.
2. Run the gVim installer as an administrator and get through the basics.
3. Clean up your Vim subfolders.
4. Install Git via mysisgit.
5. Configure cURL to work from the command line.
6. Install Vundle.
7. Download the ConEmu installer.
8. Run the installer as an administrator.

How do I update Vimrc?

The procedure to reload .vimrc in Vim without restart:

1. Start vim text editor by typing: vim filename.
2. Load vim config file by typing vim command: Esc followed by :vs ~/.vimrc.
3. Add customization like:
4. Use :wq to save a file and exit from ~/.
5. Reload ~/.vimrc by typing any one of the following command:

Where is the home variable in gvim 8.1?

That last entry, DOMAIN\sername, is the login I’m using to run gVim. The solution was to define $HOME as a Windows environment variable. Once I did that and restarted gVim, it read my ~\\_vimrc and also sourced my native Vim 8.1 packages correctly. Source: this answer at Stack Overflow.

Why does VIM not source$ home-windows on Windows 10?

*$HOME-windows* On MS-Windows, if $HOME is not defined as an environment variable, then at runtime Vim will set it to the expansion of $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH. If $HOMEDRIVE is not set then $USERPROFILE is used. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!

Where to find vimrc file in Windows 10?

Instead of using the user vimrc file: $HOME\\_vimrc and user gvimrc file: $HOME\\_gvimrc I used 2nd user vimrc file: $HOME\\vimfiles\\vimrc and 2nd user gvimrc file: $HOME\\vimfiles\\gvimrc These were the values prior to the addition of the windows user environment variable and did not change afterwards.

Where do I Find my vimfiles in gVim?

When I run :echo $HOME from gvim, it reports my Windows user profile directory C:\\Users\sername. I have a $HOME\\_gvimrc which it reads fine. My vimfiles directory is at the default $HOME\\vimfiles which it seems to read fine, because it’s sourcing a color scheme from there.