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

My solution isn't quite the same but could be adapted pretty easily.

I have my Vim setup on my workstation and it's shared through regular Windows file sharing. I have this batch file that I can launch from any other computer in the building (and there's an install of Vim on another network share since most workstations don't even have Vim installed). I just run this batch file and am in my happy place.

set MYWORK=\\my_pc\work
set RCBASE=%MYWORK%\personal\utilities\tom.

start \\server\software\vim\vim73\gvim.exe -u %RCBASE%vimrc -U %RCBASE%gvimrc

So basically the adaptation would put the batch file, shell script, or otherwise into the archive you're unpacking and launch the system vim with your local files.