[Vimoutliner] Errors with Vim 7.1 on Windows

[Tim Roberts]

Poojan Wagh wrote:
> Yup: fully up and running. Upon looking into it further (using my home
> computer), I found that vim on Windows for some reason sets $HOME to
> be $HOMEDRIVE:$HOMEPATH.

This is because Windows does not define a HOME variable by default.  A 
normal installation only gets HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.

> In my case, at work, this was set to H:\ for
> some reason. So, I guess I could have (and probably should have)
> installed all the files into H:\vimfiles (for example). However,
> H:\vimfiles didn't exist initially and I didn't know to look for it
> there. (It is also a curious feature of vim for windows to rename what
> normally would be .vim to vimfiles.)
>   

And this is because, until relatively recently, vim supported Windows 
3.x and MS-DOS, which had a certain amount of trouble with file names 
that had nothing to the left of the dot.  That's also why we have _vimrc 
instead of .vimrc.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.