How can I override ~/.vim and ~/.vimrc paths (but no others) in vim?

Question

Let\'s say I have a tarball of all my vim config - everything normally inside ~/.vim (plugins, autoload, colours, all that stuff), and a vimrc file. I extract this to a director

Answer 1

On Unix & Linux systems (and maybe Windows) Vim uses the $HOME environment variable to locate the .vimrc file and .vim directory. So you can cd into the directory where you have your custom versions and start vim or gvim like this:

HOME=. vim files....