A month on the command line, Day 5: Where does Windows Vim keep its files?

By Steven Rosenberg on May 7, 2007 2:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

It was a bit of a mystery. Once I closed Vim, I couldn't figure out where it was saving my files in Windows XP. It wouldn't be a problem if I could remember the name of each and every file I created, but since I can't remember my own name half the time, it is a big deal, especially since this isn't a command-line system on which I can just type ls at the prompt. And it gets worse: For some reason my "search file" icon doesn't work either -- never has. (Thanks, again, Windows!)

Vim help was no help, but I did a "save as" in Vim, and it clued me in:

By default, Vim saves it files in the User directory, which is in the Documents and Settings folder under the C: drive.

So the path is C:/Documents and Settings/user/filename

Another mystery solved.

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