How do you disable the GVIM welcome screen?

[Evolution]

Does anyone know how to disable the welcome screen as displayed in the attached picture? All of the websites say to type :set shortmess+=I or to add it without the colon to the configuration file. And yet everytime I start vim, the welcome screen still shows up. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[+BudMan MVC]

I just installed the 7.3d beta to test this.. In my install the _vimrc file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim did not allow me to change, so I change ntfs permissions for users from read+exec to modify so I could change it

Now just add that entry to your _vimrc file

And then it will startup like this

[Evolution]

  On 05/08/2010 at 13:17, BudMan said:

I just installed the 7.3d beta to test this.. In my install the _vimrc file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim did not allow me to change, so I change ntfs permissions for users from read+exec to modify so I could change it

Now just add that entry to your _vimrc file

And then it will startup like this

hmm well I figured out the problem. After downloading the latest version of gvim from their own sites instead of cream's (7.3d vs. 7.2 + patched), the problem went away :laugh: However sticking with 7.2 on my Win 7 computer, there was never a problem, it seemed to only occur with Vista :/

EDIT: For some reason vista adds the line set nocompatible at the top, but Windows 7 doesn't.

Thanks

[+BudMan MVC]

I downloaded 7.3d from here

ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unstable/pc/gvim73d.exe

Not sure what creams copy is?

But from a default install I had to modify the ntfs permissions to be able to edit _vimrc

I can fire it up on my son's laptop which is still running vista since have not gotten around to updating it yet.