vim do not guess $HOME when unavailable

[Bram Moolenaar]

Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> One of our users reported that with HOME unset vim does not find the 
> users vimrc, because it only uses $HOME to find the vimrc :
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/349465
> 
> Is this intended (and if yes why) ? or shouldn't it use getpwuid to find 
> the information ?

Vim only uses $HOME, so that you can specify what home directory to use.
So far I haven't seen a reason to do otherwise.  Not having $HOME set is
likely to cause trouble.

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