Bruce Korb wrote:
Diwaker Gupta wrote:
And 'vim -u NONE' doesn't work for you?
alias vi='vim -u NONE'
OK. That works. Can't that be done with something a little more
obvious in ~/.vimrc ?? So, I'll burn that in my brain and not be
bothered anymore. Thank you all. Bruce
"Something a little more obvious in vimrc" will prevent neither setting
'nocompatible' (which Vim does as soon as it finds a .vimrc or _vimrc)
nor running the global plugins. "vim -u NONE" is really what makes it
look most like a "bare-bones" vi (sets 'compatible', doesn't read the
vimrc, doesn't source any plugins, and, because of the program-name
"vim", not "gvim", doesn't start the GUI even if enabled).
Side-effect: if you have a ~/.exrc (old-style vi startup script) it
won't be read either.
Of course, this is still Vim: if you use any valid Vim commands unknown
to vi, they will be executed, not give an error.
Best regards,
Tony.
