Change Default Location of .vimrc to Inside ~/.vim/

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I use git to persist my ~/.vim directory. I'd like to store my vimrc file in this directory as well so that it will also live in the repository. How do I change the location where Vim searches for the vimrc file?

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You don't. Symlink it instead.

mv ~/.vimrc ~/.vim
ln -s  ~/.vim/.vimrc ~/.vim

You cam do the symlink thing to sync your vimrc through Dropbox as well.

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in your main .vimrc file:

source otherVimScriptFilePath.vim

then just put your variable statement in that file:

" otherVimScriptFilePath.vim
let whoami = "user1"

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It looks like this part of the scriptnames output is relevant:

12: /home/tom/.vim/plugin/Light.vim
13: /home/tom/.vim/plugin/codeburn.vim
14: /home/tom/.vim/colors/Light.vim
15: /home/tom/.vim/autoload/csapprox.vim
16: /home/tom/.vim/plugin/coffee.vim
17: /home/tom/.vim/plugin/color_sample_pack.vim
18: /home/tom/.vim/plugin/ir_black.vim
19: /home/tom/.vim/colors/coffee.vim

It looks like you have some colorschemes in your plugin directory (Light.vim, codeburn.vim, ...). Try moving these to a temporary location and see it it helps.

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