What .vimrc will be used if there are multiple?

Question

I'm working on a centos7 machine. In my home directory i have my .vimrc file

If i had a .vimrc file in the directory aswell, what one would Vim use and why?

Answer 1

Without any special configurations, Vim assumes that there is only a simple .vimrc file under ~/.vimrc .

Vim is not going to search for another .virmc , in any other directory, unless you specifically instruct it to load another .vimrc from the ~/.vimrc file

Answer 2

Vim will use the ~/.vimrc by default. If you wish to specify another initialization script, just do:

vim -u <PATH TO FILE>