Where is vimrc or vim profile for github's mingw32 shell on a Windows machine?

Question

Cygwin has a home directory where I can store a .vimrc file to set up syntax highlighting. I know on linux machines this file is usually in a home directory and that it can

Answer 1

Git bash uses MSYSGIT, which comes with its own Vim . One way to look it up -

In your git bash type

$ type vim

it will tell you which vim executable is used. In my machine it points to

/bin/vim

if you type

vim --version, it spits out a lot of environment.

pipe it to a grep, like this

vim --version | grep vimrc and this will tell you the location(s) where this instance of vim will look for vimrc.