Make vim read the vimrc from ~/.vim/vimrc

Question

This may not be the best place to ask this question but I'm having trouble getting vim to read my vimrc file. If I have it in the home directory as ~/.vimrc then it ready just fine but if I move it ~/.vim/vimrc so that I can take advantage of plugins and a few other things, it no longer reads the vimrc. I can't remember what I was supposed to do to make it read the correct vimrc.

Answer 1

A method of blindly loading all your plugins, assuming they are all in ~/.vim/plugins, would be putting the following in your ~/.vimrc:

source glob(~/.vim/plugins/*.vim)

Answer 2

I created a symlink.

ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc

Works like a charm.

Answer 3

The easiest way would be to remain using a ~/.vimrc file, if for no other reason than using it to read in your sub-folder based .vimrc

Putting something like the below in your ~/.vimrc should work:

if filereadable("~/.vim/vimrc")
        source ~/.vim/vimrc
endif

I don't recall if vim expands home directories or not. I imagine it does, but if it does not, just use:

if filereadable("/Users/yourusername/.vim/vimrc")
        source /Users/yourusername/.vim/vimrc
endif