hpr3070 :: making vim xdg compatible
move your vim configuration out of the home directory
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Vim Hints.
Various contributors lead us on a journey of discovery of the Vim (and vi) editors.
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
xdg vim config
To make vim load an alternative config file either use an alias or the VIMINIT variable. i.e. place either alias vim="vim -u ~/.config/vim/vimrc" or VIMINIT="source ~/.config/vim/vimrc" in your .bashrc (ironically, that one is still in my home folder).
Once that is loaded, you should source the following file after "nocompatible"
" file: ~/.config/vim/xdg.vim
if empty($XDG_CACHE_HOME)
let $XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME."/.cache"
endif
if empty($XDG_CONFIG_HOME)
let $XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME."/.config"
endif
if empty($XDG_DATA_HOME)
let $XDG_DATA_HOME=$HOME."/.local/share"
endif
set directory=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/vim/swap,~/,/tmp
set backupdir=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/vim/backup,~/,/tmp
set undodir=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/vim/undo,~/,/tmp
set viminfo+=n$XDG_CACHE_HOME/vim/viminfo
set runtimepath+=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vim,$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vim/after,$XDG_DATA_HOME/vim/bundle/Vundle.vim,$VIM,$VIMRUNTIME
let $MYVIMRC=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME."/vim/vimrc"
With this file in place you should call it from your vimrc
" file: ~/.config/vim/vimrc
set nocompatible
filetype off
source $HOME/.config/vim/xdg.vim
call vundle#begin()
let vundle#bundle_dir = expand("$XDG_DATA_HOME/vim/bundle")
" include your calls to Plugin here
call vundle#end()
filetype plugin indent on
syntax on
source ~/.config.
Note that it is important that all the paths are defined BEFORE Vundle (or whatever is your plugin manager) is called, since the path to it is defined in xdg.vim.
You can check my full vim config at gitlab.
References
The vim script I modified my config from - https://gist.github.com/dkasak/6ae1c6bf0d771155f23b