How to locate the vimrc file used by Vim?

Question

Is there a command in the Vim editor to find the .vimrc file location?

Answer 1

Just try doing the following:

:version

You will get an output which includes something like:

 system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"

As noted by Herbert in comments, this is where vim looks for vimrc s, it doesn't mean they exist.

You can check the full path of your vimrc with

:echo $MYVIMRC

If the output is empty, then your vim doesn't use a user vimrc (just create it if you wish).

Answer 2

对于nvim使用:scriptnames就像Randy Morris 评论中提出的那样

Answer 3

:version 没有列出/etc/vim但这是 vim 在我从 vim-gtk3 运行 vim82 的 ubuntu 盒子上拾取 gvimrc 和 vimrc 的地方

Answer 4

If the existing answers do not help, run :script which will show you all the locations where VIM is loading files from. Probably, your source file is located somewhere in those directories. If you find a different source file, you may insert the following in it:

if filereadable("/my/directory/.vim/.vimrc")
   source /my/directory/.vim/.vimrc
endif

And VIM will load your custom config file wherever it is.

Check it is working by looking for it in the output of :script