Re: Getting rid of Vim's startup screen
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:45:25PM +0100, thus spake Jonathan Gift:
> 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.
Tread carefully, this isn't the only thing it effects!
:he nocompatible for details
Glyn
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