Re: Getting rid of Vim's startup screen

[Jonathan Gift <jgift@wanadoo.fr>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> >
> >Put 'set shortmess=I' (or 'set shm=I') in your ~/.vimrc.
> 
> Bah, turns out the default is 'shortmess=filnxtToO' (intuitive, huh?),
> so you need to add to that, not replace it. 'set shortmess=filnxtToOI'
> should work better.

I had seen that and it didn't work. By starting with nothing i found out
it was:

set nocompatible

which was stopping it. That removed and shm=I worked fine.

A vi thing. I don't know why.

Thanks for the help.

Jonathan

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