On 28/09/11 22:56, Ben Fritz wrote:
On Sep 28, 11:04 am, "Christian Brabandt"<[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, September 28, 2011 4:05 pm, Dwayne Henderson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
The example files are only that - examples. They are not used
unless your own vimrc or gvimrc sources them, and whether or not
they do, it's your choice.
No, I'm pretty sure gVim went ahead and sourced them (or at least
one of them) anyway. So my only choice was to edit them, and take
out the parts I didn't need.
They shouldn't and are certainly not source on my Win XP system.
By default, a fresh Vim install on Windows DOES source the
vimrc_example.vim.
$VIM/_vimrc contains:
set nocompatible
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin
If any user lacks a personal .vimrc/_vimrc, that user's Vim will use
$VIM/_vimrc.
Most of the things the OP complains about are set in
vimrc_example.vim.
I agree that backups are annoying and should probably not be on by
default for new users, but I disagree about turning off indent,
filetype plugins, etc. I think that is certainly a useful default,
it's part of what makes Vim able to compete with modern point-and-
click editors.
About the 'backup' option, I recommend
if has('writebackup')
set nobackup writebackup
endif
Personally I use filetype-plugins but I find most indent plugins a
little too high-handed for my taste, so my vimrc includes
runtime vimrc_example.vim
filetype indent off
IMHO, most of the settings set by the vimrc_example.vim are useful. The
few which are not to my liking I override in a way similar to the above.
OTOH mswin.vim is IMHO an example of what not to do, I wouldn't touch it
with a ten-foot pole; and instead of ":behave mswin" I tried to find
something as close as I could manage to the "golden middle" between
:behave mswin and :behave xterm, as follows:
set selection=inclusive selectmode=key,mouse
set mousemodel=popup keymodel=startsel
Best regards,
Tony.
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