On Monday 27 May 2002 10:45 pm, Matt Gushee wrote: > The question is: is that what $VIMRUNTIME is *for*? In other words, > can I rely on the above command to do what it's supposed to? This env variable points to all of the runtime files that come with the Vim distribution. Sure, you can count on it as long as it's in your .bash_profile. Jeff