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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:30:06+00:00

I’v been using vim/gVim so far in my Linux Machine, and I have a

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I’v been using vim/gVim so far in my Linux Machine, and I have a Windows machine as well. In this windows machine I’m mainly notepad++.

I would like to store all my .vimrc settings and .vim folder in Dropbox, and create symbolic links in Linux pointing to them, and them do the same in my Windows machine.

I have plenty of “home shortcut notation” (don’t if this is the correct name) ~ in my configuration, and would like to know if writing down for example $HOME instead of ~ it’s going to work: this way, I can create some symbolic links in Windows as well that points to these files (I’m using Windows 7, so my home is c:\Users\username).

Any other pitfalls or recommendations when creating vimrc cross-plataform with Dropbox?

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  1. Editorial Team

    That’s exactly what I do, and it works like a charm for me. The only place I use $HOME instead of ~ is for the backup directories, but that works fine. The main problem I run into is that editing the .vimrc file on Windows never works quite right, so I just edit it on OS X instead.

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