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René Nyffenegger
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:help startup states, under 3. Execute Ex commands, from environment variables and/or files that (for Unix systems) $HOME/.vimrc or $HOME/.vim/vimrc is read and that The files are searched in the order specified above and only the first one that is found is read.

I do have a (read/writeable) ~/.vim/vimrc file, so I have expected this file to be read first.

However, when I start gvim (debugged with the -V20 flag) I see that gvim first reads /usr/share/vim/vimrc. When it is finished reading this file, it then reads my ~/.vim/vimrc file. I don't want the /usr/share/vim/vimrc file to be read at all.

The environment variable $VIM is not set.

Interestingly (and somewhat surprisingly for me): after gvim is started up fully, :echo $MYVIMRC prints /home/rene/.vim/vimrc.

So, my questions are: why does it behave differently from what is stated in the help file and how do I make sure that only ~/.vim/vimrc is read.

:help startup states, under 3. Execute Ex commands, from environment variables and/or files that (for Unix systems) $HOME/.vimrc or $HOME/.vim/vimrc is read and that The files are searched in the order specified above and only the first one that is found is read.

I do have a (read/writeable) ~/.vim/vimrc file, so I have expected this file to be read first.

However, when I start gvim (debugged with the -V20 flag) I see that gvim first reads /usr/share/vim/vimrc. When it is finished reading this file, it then reads my ~/.vim/vimrc file. I don't want the /usr/share/vim/vimrc file to be read at all.

The environment variable $VIM is not set.

So, my questions are: why does it behave differently from what is stated in the help file and how do I make sure that only ~/.vim/vimrc is read.

:help startup states, under 3. Execute Ex commands, from environment variables and/or files that (for Unix systems) $HOME/.vimrc or $HOME/.vim/vimrc is read and that The files are searched in the order specified above and only the first one that is found is read.

I do have a (read/writeable) ~/.vim/vimrc file, so I have expected this file to be read first.

However, when I start gvim (debugged with the -V20 flag) I see that gvim first reads /usr/share/vim/vimrc. When it is finished reading this file, it then reads my ~/.vim/vimrc file. I don't want the /usr/share/vim/vimrc file to be read at all.

The environment variable $VIM is not set.

Interestingly (and somewhat surprisingly for me): after gvim is started up fully, :echo $MYVIMRC prints /home/rene/.vim/vimrc.

So, my questions are: why does it behave differently from what is stated in the help file and how do I make sure that only ~/.vim/vimrc is read.

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René Nyffenegger
René Nyffenegger
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Why does gvim read /usr/share/vim/vimrc instead of ~/.vim/vimrc

:help startup states, under 3. Execute Ex commands, from environment variables and/or files that (for Unix systems) $HOME/.vimrc or $HOME/.vim/vimrc is read and that The files are searched in the order specified above and only the first one that is found is read.

I do have a (read/writeable) ~/.vim/vimrc file, so I have expected this file to be read first.

However, when I start gvim (debugged with the -V20 flag) I see that gvim first reads /usr/share/vim/vimrc. When it is finished reading this file, it then reads my ~/.vim/vimrc file. I don't want the /usr/share/vim/vimrc file to be read at all.

The environment variable $VIM is not set.

So, my questions are: why does it behave differently from what is stated in the help file and how do I make sure that only ~/.vim/vimrc is read.