On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 10:48 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can I propose adding the following line to /etc/vimrc: > > > > let skip_defaults_vim=1 > > > > This fixes the following issue: > > Creating an empty ~/.vimrc prevents vim from overriding settings in > > /etc/vimrc by using /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim. > > > > More info can be found here: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864074 > > Interesting. I am thinking that there may be initialization in > /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim that is useful, but the /etc/vimrc > should be able to supersede it. > > What do you think about adding to the start of /etc/vimrc: > > source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim > let skip_defaults_vim=1 > > " rest of /etc/vimrc > > -- Bruce >
That looks reasonable although 'yet to be tested'. I'll put it into my config and see if there are any detrimental effects. Are you sure that $VIMRUNTIME is set at this point time (boot time)? $VIMRUNTIME is not set for me at a terminal session. Where is it set? Regards, Wayne. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
