I was trying to get the configure file’s location using echo stdpath("config") and the console showed E117: unknown function: stdpath
- Reinstall tried (isn’t thorough enough because
vimrcstayed) Vimrcdelete tried
Both these methods made no progress
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stdpath() is only available in Neovim so you can’t use it in Vim.
The two programs share some DNA and there is still some cross-pollinisation happening but they are not the same program and there is no reason whatsoever to expect something that works in one to also work in the other.
FWIW, if by “the configure file’ location” you mean “the location of my vimrc“, then you can get it with :echo $MYVIMRC in both Vim and Neovim.
The stdpath() function seems to be specific to Neovim.
There’s no such function in Vim and that’s why it gives E117: Unknown function.
The following line of Vimscript should give the analogue result, i.e. the path where vimrc is stored:
:echo fnamemodify(expand('$MYVIMRC'), ':p:h')
The MYVIMRC environment variable holds the path to your vimrc, We expand it, turn it into an absolute path and take its head, i.e. everything but the file name itself. See the example given at :help fnamemodify().