.vimrc和.gvimrc之间的差异

Question

I have vim and gvim on my ubuntu. I know the vim configuration file ~/.vimrc and the gvim configuration file ~/.gvimrc . Sometimes I write into these files to change the configuration of vim/gvim. But,
1. How do these two files work exactly ?
2. Why when I modify the file ~/.vimrc but it works also for gvim ? So what is the point of have two configuration files? Just one file --> ~/.vimrc can already do the job, can't it?

Answer 1

See :help gvimrc :

The gvimrc file is where GUI-specific startup commands should be placed. It is always sourced after the vimrc file.

You can use the gvimrc files to set up your own customized menus (see :menu ) and initialize other things that you may want to set up differently from the terminal version.