controlling vim within YDL

[Christopher Murtagh]

On 4 Jun 2003, Derick Centeno wrote:
>I want to modify vim via the number and colorscheme variables which are
>controlled through EXINIT.  Within the AIX OS this would be done through
>the .profile file, but I believe the analog of that file in YDL is
>the.bash_profile, The goal is to modify a key file so that I don't have
>to modify vim in every individual session every time I invoke its use;
>instead whenever I invoke vim I want it to "look up" this key file and
>utilize the variables definitions modifying vim's behavior to my liking.
>So which file do I modify so that my prompts (resetting PS1 and PS2) and
>vim behave are to the way I prefer.

 I think what you're refering to is '~/.vimrc'. You want to change vim's 
default preferences right? Your .vimrc file is the place to do this. 

Cheers,

Chris

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