Christopher Browne wrote: > Myles Braithwaite <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm really interested in other people's setup so could we start a > > thread of people sharing their ~/.vimrc file. > > ... > I am mostly an Emacs user, and have quite a lot of stuff in > $HOME/.emacs.d/init.el
I've noticed over the years that it's mostly been the programmers who are able to do most if not all their work on one system who are able to customize it to the Nth degree. This was even more so back in the day when an attempt to compile GNU Emacs was something people launched over a weekend. Sysadmins and support people usually didn't get the luxury of staying inside their own personalized environment. Ed and vi were what you got on a Unix system in the SysV era; the latter was usually easier to use. Emacs wasn't an easy choice to make until the Linux binary-package era and by then I was too used to vi. (FWIW, I'd first met Emacs on a PR1ME system several years before I met vi, but it was a demo copy we couldn't afford to buy.) I've mostly been doing work that involved logging into a default environment on larger pools of machines over the years (starting back when the better modems were 2400 baud!) and being able to get work done without tweaking the environment first was more of a priority. Dealing with quirks like having to set TERM first, or someone else had picked C Shell or EDITOR=jove as overridden defaults, or Sun putting /opt/wtf/bbq in PATH ahead of saner versions of random tools, or RedHat aliasing common commands to their --with-training-wheels versions, well, after awhile you learn what not to step in. That probably went on a bit long, but the point I was getting at was not forgetting how to drive a default environment. > The vim config file I didn't realize was there and had interesting contents > was $HOME/.viminfo, > which seems to have some fascinating history about what things I have > edited using vim over > the last several years. If you use vim a lot, I'll bet you'll find neat > stuff in .viminfo! Or someone doing forensics on you can glean interesting data from that file. Having said that, maybe .bash_history is another file you should glance into... -- Anthony de Boer --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
