Starting vim with vimfiles in a certain location
vim, windows-7
Solution
You can pass a custom location for the `~/.vimrc` file; `:help startup` has all the details. For example, you could pass a file location via `-u`, or define a `:source file` command in the environment variable `VIMINIT`.
Once you're running your own vimrc file, the loading of plugins is determined by the `'runtimepath'` option. Therefore, if you want to use a non-default location (not `~/.vim` / `~/vimfiles`), just `:set runtimepath=...` to it.
Problem
One of vim's more often used configurations is having a folder structure like this ``` \[vimfiles] \[vim73] \_vimrc ``` How can I start vim with _vimrc and [vimfiles] being in some other folder? The folder in question in not one of those which vim upon starting checks automatically?