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The global or system-wide vim configuration file is generally located under the /etc/vim/vimrc . This configuration file is applied to all users and when Vim is started this configuration file is read and Vim is configured according to this file contents.
Opening vimrc Using file name completion, you could type :e $M then press Tab until you see the desired variable. If you only want to see the path, type :echo $M then press Tab to see the variable, and press Enter. In gvim, the Edit menu includes "Startup Settings" which will use $MYVIMRC to edit your vimrc file.
I carry a vimrc to all the machines that I work on and it naturally contains options that are not present in old vi.
If I accidentally start a vi session on a machine where vi is not an alias to vim and/or vim is not installed, vi reads vimrc and throws a bunch of annoying errors to let me know that option such and such are unsupported.
I know I can just always type "vim" instead of "vi" and set the EDITOR variable to vim (for visudo etc...), but is there a line I can add to the top of the vimrc that will exit the script early if the file is read by vi?
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