Checking the man page for vim
says it's -u
switch that lets me choose a different vimrc file
-u {vimrc} Use the commands in the file {vimrc} for initializations. All the other initializations
are skipped. Use this to edit a special kind of files. It can also be used to skip all
initializations by giving the name "NONE". See ":help initialization" within vim for more
details.
But, i would like to retain the default configurations and just add few more setting from my user-vimrc
file. Command i use is
$ vim -u user.vimrc *file-to-edit*
Any way to achieve this?
To be more specific of what I am losing with current behaviour:
Without my vimrc, I get a default colorscheme and when i give my user.vimrc
, the colorscheme is being switched off. I am not able to track how to set the colorscheme which is given by default. There is no default .vimrc
.
Note: I am on a shared env, so i don't want to create a .vimrc
. I will just source my vimrc which will be available only for me.
Best Answer
The
.vimrc
is just a Vimscript file like any other. You can source it viaWith this, it will come first. There's also the
-S {file}
command-line argument, which would source it at the end (which makes this unsuitable for plugin initializations, but would work if you just have some mappings and settings).